During tournament play, it would be nice if groups could have their winners declared, even though there are ongoing games in the group, if those games have no further relevance (players cannot get to an advancing position or the game isn't needed for a tie-break situation). The the tournament could move on to the next round while players that don't advance can finish their games without impeding the tournament.

Even if this was not an automatic function, maybe to many variables to make it an easy, it would be awesome as a tool available to the Tournament Director.

so, basically u can show off to ur group members that you won?

I was referring to the tournament group, so that the next round can start instead of waiting on a couple of games being played by people no longer with a shot of moving on.

For example, I am the TD of a tournament that started six months ago. We are now waiting on a game that just started (last I checked, white had made their first move, waiting on black). Neither player will move on if they win, and the person in that grouping is clear (there are no tie break issues). In my scenario, the tournament could move on to round 2 (maybe even a couple of months ago) and the remaining game can still be played. As it stands, if the game proceeds at the same pace as the previous one, we are looking at mid 2011 before the next round starts.

Sounds fair enough.

Appears to be too complicated to implement.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/tournaments/how-to-speed-up-tournaments---help

The one game after another format can only increase this frustration. Instead make the groups smaller and play both games at once.

You know I searched for the topic and didn't find anything. I didn't use speed up as a reference, I wonder if that is where I went wrong.

Thanks for posting the link, TadDude.