Said.Of course, Jimmy is perfectly right.But it's not only the two players affected by the 'draw against himself'.All the other Abdullah opponents were affected by the FIDE regulation on Bucholz calculation. Pretty ridiculous how such a stupid resolution to this problem can exist in the program that runs almost every major chess tournament in the world.In a tournament with such a huge spread of ratings, a better resolution would have been just to use Median-Buchholz, which in my opinion is truly underrated and under.known-about TB. While this is only true when the player concerned is close to the top.it's also the only time when it actually matters.It's ridiculous when you think of it receiving the easiest opponent but having the system treat him like the strongest. Said.Hi JimmyThanks for the explanation on calculating the tie break.The default variable for the tie break (37) in Swiss Manager is 'forfeit and bye games is counted as draw against the player himself'. The tie breaks taken from (not shown in the picture but they are at the bottom of the web page) are -Tie Break1: Buchholz Tie-Breaks (variabel with parameter)Tie Break2: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variableThere is no way to tell which variable that the TD selected based on the posted results. TB1 is first tie break and TB2 is the second tie break. There are three variations -a) using opponents actual points (this is the original Buchholz)b) the game is treated as a draw for tie-break purpose but still using the opponent's pointsc) the game is treated as a draw against the player himself (please note the italics because this will really surprise you later.Analysis of 17th Chess Club top three players tie-break. They are refered to as Buchholz Tie-Breaks (variabel with parameter) and Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variable.These variables describe how unplayed games are computed for tie-break purpose. This variations are selected in Swiss Manager at the beginning of the tournament.
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