Chess Club Manager Onscreen Demo
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Awards, Reports and Bonus Points

Motivation is the key to keeping kids interested in chess. If it's only about the best chess players, pretty soon you'll have a very small club with just those players! But Chess Club Manager© makes it a snap for you to spread the recognition around - to everyone in your club.

The Awards and Reports Screen gives you remarkably powerful tools to motivate and reward every single player in your club, regardless of how many games they win! The left hand column buttons let you Update standings and Print out lists of player rankings, for the club as a whole or by individual groups, for any time period you like. There's no faster way - anywhere! - for you generate reports to post for players to see, to send a list of the top players to the school newspaper, or just to let you keep track of how everyone is doing. You can even View Standings on screen, for any month of the year and for any group you choose!

The buttons in the center let you print out Awards by the dozens - all with just the click of a few buttons. The Awards by Group button lets you choose from seven categories of Awards that CCM can automatically generate by going through the database and identifying the best performers in those categories from every group in the club, for any time period you define. You can instantly create awards for Player Standings, Standings by Gender (with boys and girls ranked separately within each group, so there are twice as many awards for high places!), Honorable Mention (for those below a given place in any group), Most Bonus Points, Most Workout Points, Most Improved Player, and Most Games Played.

Creating your Awards couldn't be simpler! Select your parameters by clicking a few buttons as shown above, then click Find Winners. CCM does the rest - automatically! - and a list of winners appears. Then click the Print button, and a custom certificate comes out for each name in the list, as fast as your printer can spit them out!

But what about the kids who aren't the best chess players? We haven't forgotten about them, and with Chess Club Manager©, you won't either! The Awards by Individual button lets you choose from several categories that we've created, like Sportsmanship, Puzzle Solving, Behavior, Attendance or Chess Reading, and instantly select deserving players to receive their own special certificates. You can even create your own categories, for anything you like!

Making these custom Awards couldn't be simpler. Just pick the category you want (not shown here), then select all the players to get this Award. Add their grade or division to the certificate by clicking in the corresponding box, then click the Print button and Presto! - more certificates appear by magic! Nobody goes home empty handed, and everyone goes home happy - whether they've won any games or not!

Award Certificates can be printed on plain paper, on stationery you've bought, or on our very special Think Like A King® USCF Scholastic Chess Award Stationery (which can be bought through our on-line store). Any way you do it, your players will love the recognition - and Chess Club Manager© makes it easy for you to give!

As long as we're on the subject of motivating everyone, good chess player or not, CCM gives you still one more way to reward kids for effort and enthusiasm. The Bonus Points Screen lets you select a category (use ours or create your own!), select the deserving players by clicking on their names, and instantly award however many points you like, for any activity you've chosen! You can even give negative points as penalties for misbehavior or poor attendance if you're so inclined.

Bonus Points are tracked in their own category, can be viewed in the Player Roster, and can be used to determine winners of Award Certificates.

With so many ways to make it so easy to reward every single player in your club, Chess Club Manager© will bring ever-higher levels of enthusiasm to your group - and make chess even more exciting!

But we're still not done showing you all the features, so keep on going...!