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27th October 2009, 08:17am
#181
by kohai
chess.com International
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 3867

In your online games page right side column it shows

Standard games, Chess960 games, All games

If you look at the details under "All games" it shows Total games, Games in progress and Timeouts

You can see this whether your a premium or basic member :)

27th October 2009, 10:40am
#182
by corbuaustin
Austin, Texas United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 54

Can someone tell me how the tie breaker points are calculated. You have 3 players all with 5 wins and the tie breaker determines the round winner. How is it calculated?

27th October 2009, 11:02am
#183
by kohai
chess.com International
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 3867

yes its in the help page on the tournaments home :)

If 2 players in a group have the same score then both will advance. Tournament Directors can choose to use an additional tie-break method (we use the Neustadtl score) which factors in the strength of the opponents. If two players have the same score and the same Tie Break score, both will advance.

Below is an example of how the tie breaking system works:
Group #--     1           2           3             Point       Tie Break
1. Bob          X         1 1         0  1            3               4.5
2. John         0 0       X          1  0.5         1.5             2.25
3. Mary        1  0       0.5        0    X         1.5             3.75

A player's tiebreak score is calculated by adding the sum of the player's points they have defeated to half the sum of the player's points they have drawn against.

Bob won two games against John and one game against Mary. So Bob gets 2x1.5 points from John and 1.5 points from Mary, which sums up to 4.5 tiebreak points.

John won one game and drew one game against Mary. So John gets 1.5x1.5 points from Mary, which sums up to 2.25 tiebreak points.

Mary won one game against Bob and drew one game against John. So Mary gets 1x3.0 points from Bob and 0.5x1.5 points from John, which sums up to 3.75 tiebreak points.

30th October 2009, 02:57pm
#184
by WolfLeader
Wolf Pack United States
Member Since: Jun 2009
Member Points: 2062

mine says 17 18% every game i play, how much pecentage will go down?

30th October 2009, 07:13pm
#185
by BlackNight_13
Maine United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 319

I now have had two tourneys start on their own with the "automatically start when full" button unchecked!


One was based around starting friday Nov. 13
30th October 2009, 07:18pm
#186
by socket2me
Ft. Collins, Colorado United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 535

If chess.com comes up with sanctioned tournaments for those who have a low RD, such as (85&under), maybe that would be a more fair tourney, with better results?

Also, I have noticed that many tournaments (ex: 1000-1400) end up with players rated over 2200.  If we have a standard deviation, then this problem wouldn't exist.

5th November 2009, 01:42pm
#187
by corbuaustin
Austin, Texas United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 54

Can someone explain to me how tie breaker points are determined. I tied for 1st but didn't have the tie breaker points to advance.

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