Gardiner Chess

Cadogan Chess 2005, 219 F8 pages $45
Third Edition incorporating the 2005 FIDE Laws of Chess

"In 1997 the chess world got a new set of Laws of Chess. They were
divided into two sections: Rules of Play and Competition Rules. The
Rules Committee also tried to cover all types of chess games:
normal, rapid, blitz, games played with mechanical clocks, games
played with electronic clocks, and so on. In 1997, Cadogan published
the first edition of The Chess Organiser's Handbook, in which the
new Laws of Chess were published and explained. It was written by
Stewart Reuben, one of the secretaries of the Rules Committee. The
author actually did much more. He included chapters about the
organisation of a chess tournament, Swiss pairings systems, tables,
tournament regulations and so on...."
- Geurt Gijssen

Contents:
Preface A Year in the Life of a Chess Congress Organiser
Chapter 1 The Organiser's Objectives
Chapter 2 What Type of Competition?
Chapter 3 Deciding the Prize Structure
Chapter 4 Preparing the Budget
Chapter 5 Venues for Chess Events
Chapter 6 Arbiters
Chapter 7 Equipment
Chapter 8 Chess Clocks and Timing Games
Chapter 9 Swiss Pairing Systems
Chapter 10 The 2005 Laws of Chess
Chapter 11 Comments on the Laws of Chess
Chapter 12 Withdrawals
Chapter 13 Tie-break Systems
Chapter 14 FIDE Title Regulations
Chapter 15 FIDE Rating Regulations
Chapter 16 Comments on Ratings
Chapter 17 Specification for a complete information system for a chess tournament
Chapter 18 Inputting games (by John Saunders)
Chapter 19 How to be a Tournament Webmaster (John Saunders)
Chapter 20 Peripheral activities
Chapter 21 Events for Children
Appendix 1 Blank cross tables and Berger all-play-all tables
Appendix 2 Tables for the Scheveningen System
Appendix 3 Hilton Pairings
Appendix 4 Calculation of ratings of new players