Managing go tournaments by hand is a hard job when the number of players exceed thirty or fourty. Happily, some programs will help you !

OpenGotha

Designed for Swiss and Mac-Mahon tournaments. Up to 1200 players and 20 rounds.
OpenGotha is basically a pairing program like Gotha or MacMahon.
It also inherits Gotha specific features like integration of EGF and FFG databases.

A few additional features make it unique :
- It runs under Linux, MacOS and Windows.
- It may be run in a multi-workstation environment, enabling several persons to work simultaneously
- Understanding and tuning of parameters are made more comfortable by an immediate update of standings, whatever change is made.
- Multilingual : English, French, Spanish and German.
Written by Luc Vannier.
Download OpenGotha

Gotha

Designed for Swiss and Mac-Mahon tournaments. It integrates EGF recommendations.
Registering is made faster and more reliable by an automatic spell checking with EGF and FFG databases.
Up to 1000 players and 10 rounds.
Also manages Roundrobin tournaments.
Written by Luc Vannier.
Windows systems. Download Gotha

MacMahon

Designed for Swiss and Mac-Mahon tournaments.
Up to 1000 players and 17 rounds.
Written by Christoph Gerlach.
Windows systems. Download MacMahon

GoDraw

Designed for Mac-Mahon tournaments.
Up to 500 players and 12 rounds.
Written by Geoff Kaniuk.
Dos systems. Download GoDraw

AccelRat

Accelrat is, first of all a rating system program, designed and used by the American Go Association
It also includes a pairing system.
Written by Paul Matthews.
Dos systems. Download AccelRat