What happens in a tournament if two players have an identical point score and identical tie break score?
OTB tourney? Net ? Which ?
If this happens online, both players advance.
OTB, there are usually rapidplay play-offs and the like. Or, another Tiebreak system is used.
If it's chess.com tournaments I believe both advance, and thankfully so given the length of each round and the time required for a tie-break match.
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But suppose these two players share the first position, and it's a 6->2 type tournament? does the third player also advance?
I'm pretty sure the asnwer is no, but if someone is solely out in first place in a 6->2 tournament and there is a tie for second then three will advance.
No, because there are two players who performed better than him. Since the two best-performing players go through, there is no need to include the third.
Aw, shame. Then the highest rated player of the tournament is out :(
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