You can organize five different types of tournaments on the server:

 

 

1. Round Robin

2. Knock out

3. Swiss system

4. Scheveningen system

5. Manual pairings

 

Round Robin

Each player plays against each player. Seeding of the players is random.. Pairing is done by rules where each player gets alternate colours (except once in the tournament) and the first half of the players get one additional White while the second half get one additional Black.

 

In RR you can use Double round bij checking the checkbox "Double", the Round Robin will be played twice. In the second half of the tournament the colours are exchanged; the total number of white and black games for each player are equal again.

 

Knock out

Players are sorted by rating first, then the best plays the weakest, second best plays the second last and so on. If all the higher seeded players advance, then the same happens in the second round. If this continues, the numbers 1 and 2 should play in the final.

 

When "Wins needed" is selected, the games which ends in a draw do not count. You need a x number of wins to advance. The best of 4 is clear. The first who gets 2,5 points advances. It is possible to have a different number of games from stage 2 on, for example "the best of 6". The first round is considered to eliminate the weak players. You don't need or want many rounds to do that. You need a tiebreak, which is a sudden death game. White gets extra time and must win.

 

Swiss system

The basic idea is that the players who have gathered the same amount of points play each other if possible. For the first round the players are sorted by rating and player1 plays the middle, player2 the middle+1 and so on. Colours are alternated, board1 gets a random colour distribution. For 100 players it is either

1 – 51

51 – 2

3 – 53

...

or

51 – 1

2 – 52

53 – 3

....

The probability that the best player wins the tournament is very high, even with a small number of rounds. The more rounds you play, the better the result.

 

Scheveningen system

There are two teams. Each player of team1 plays against each player of team2. It works best when the teams are of the same size. The tournaments "veterans vs ladies" used this system. As in Round Robin, in the second half the colours are exchanged when it is a double.

 

Manual pairings

You match players and let them play a certain number of games. You can set a fix number of games or a knockout style (Wins/Best of). How you interpret that is of your own decision. If you want to play a system which is not covered by the other systems, you can use this.