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Volunteers

Would anyone be interested in volunteering to:

  • Test changes to the system
  • Update the help files
  • Create new logins
  • Help new league organisers
  • Software development (needs good PHP skills and be willing to learn drupal)

If so contact Malcolm

LMS Features

  • Team captains login and update match results to which they have been given access. Players are selected from predefined drop down lists.
  • Can be used for Team Leagues, Team knockouts, Individual Swiss, Individual All play all.
  • League tables updated automatically
  • Administrators login to define the league structure, events, teams, number of boards etc.
  • Automatic generation of file for ECF grading
  • Automatic League Fixture generation taking into account dates to avoid and teams to avoid clashes with.
  • Reports to track games played by none-members, Late matches, adjournments. 
  • Keep track of club details, team captains, and all the information to manage your league

Bug Reports

There is a list of LMS bug reports and feature requests here

If you notice a problem with the LMS please look at this list to check that the problem has not been reported already. If you wish to report a new problem request a new feature please use the main Ask for help link.

 

ECF League Management System

Welcome to the English Chess Federation League Management System (LMS). See the ECF privacy statement The LMS is free for ECF rated Leagues and Clubs. If you want to use the LMS:

  • Apply for a login here
  • Request a new organisation here

To get help:

For more general queries on English chess playing for new players and membership and fining clubs you should refer to the English Chess Federation web page  

To report bugs, please first check here to see if it has been reported already, then use the contact form under the Ask for help option at the top.

What has changed??

The LMS has undergone a major upgrade to new software. You will immediately notice the following differences:

  • The link to login is now at the top right
  • If you have bookmarked the link to your organisation in favourites it will not work any more. You need to find your organisation using the Organisations or Clubs links at the top. Then bookmark the new page.
  • To ask for help, report problems, or make requests use the Ask for Help link at the top.
  • Despite the difference in how it looks, everyone who had access before should be able to login, and update the same matches, in the same way.

For a detailed explanation of the changes see this page

Confusing Things

Sorry for confusion arising from the LMS upgrade. Some of the most confusing so far are:

  • Clubs in the system used to be present as two separate things. Clubs belonged to leagues and had teams. But some of them also existed as Organisations. Some people used to find this confusing. Therefore now a club only exists as one thing in the system combining these two concepts together. However this change has created its own confusion!! ( see below )
  • People who now have the access of club user, are able to do what a club owner could do before. All those who were previously club owners should have been changed to be club users. 
  • In the new LMS anyone who is a team captain can enter match results for their team
  • Club owners are now people who can run events like club championships ( they used to be owners of the club organisations in the previous LMS)
  • You can see what you have access to by selecting LMS Access from the drop down menu you get by clicking on the person icon next to your login id at the top right hand side.   

This link to the help has a table of the new access rules

News

Problems with the new version

The major problems we are looking at with the new version are:

  • Viewing match cards on Android mobile phones - IMPROVED
  • Problem with Fixture load from Excel removing existing fixtures for all events even if you are only loading one.
  • Problem with Standings in a Swiss event
  • Problem with access to verify matches - FIXED
  • Issue with Club owners not being able to update match results - FIXED
  • Team captain import issue - FIXED 
Updates October 7th 2024

The LMS has undergone a major upgrade and now looks different. We hope you like it. The upgrade was forced on us because the software on which the LMS is based would not be supported after the end of the year. If any of the changes are causing you a real problem or something doesn't work, please let us know and we will try and help. See it, say it, sort it!

Thanks to software developer Duncan White for the new look and help with bug fixing. Thanks to the following people who reported bugs found during testing of the new version: Duncan White, Steve Emmerton, Stephen Livermore, Peter Hurn, Nigel Colter, Paul Edwards, David Atkin, Simon Scott, Phil Raynor, Paul Weightman, Ian Hunnable. Appologies to anyone else I have forgotten.