P R O T O S  (free version)
Autor: Christian Krause, International Arbiter
       L„rchenstraáe 10, D-85659 Forstern

PROTOS is a software for the administration of chess tournaments using 
Swiss-System-Rules. PROTOS is approved by FIDE and was used at official 
tournaments	(e.g. Interzonal Biel 1993)

PROTOS and its updates are available free of licence fees. Only a small 
fee for material, mailing and handling will be charged, which will not
exceed the amount of US$ 15.-. In near future PROTOS will be available 
free of any fees from COMPUSERVE. 
This is to make sure that the newest Swiss Rules developed or approved 
by FIDE will be available at least represented by one reliable computer 
program. PROTOS may be freely transferred to other users. It is not 
allowed to change PROTOS or to use parts of it within other software 
products.

The users are kindly asked to send their name, address, and closing date
of their version to the author. These informations will be registered in
the author's files and the users registered will receive information and
support in order to faciliate their use of PROTOS. This registration will
be without any commitment for the users. 
Registered users will be informed about new versions available.

PROTOS is thoroughly tested	and approved in many tournaments. If any 
results are interpreted as program failure, the user is requested to 
send a copy of the program used and the data including a description of 
the problem  to the author. The author will analyze the case and send a 
report and the latest version of PROTOS to the user.   
Using this way each user will contribute to improvements of PROTOS.

To install PROTOS, please copy the content of the diskette to a 
subdirectory of a hard disk. Then call the program PROTZIP which will 
unpack the software, the initial data of 5 tournaments and both manuals
of PROTOS. 
After installation the file PROTZIP is no longer necessary on hard disk 
for the use if PROTOS and may be deleted from the subdirectory.

Warning: 
Calling PROTZIP from the diskette will fail due to the restricted storage 
capacity of the diskette.

Manual.txt = Manual as ASCII File
Manual.doc = Manual as Winword File ready for printing the 24 paged manual. 
            
From time to time there will be a new update available either free from 
COMPUSERVE or by paying the handling charge of US$ 15.- to the author. 


Christian Krause, L„rchenstraáe 10, D-85659 Forstern
                  Tel. 0049-8124-1406   Fax: 0049-8124-9731


Forstern, March, 28, 1996