Norm Calculator

In a Swiss style tournament you do not know whether you will play the higher rated players. They could do badly leaving you, the tournament winner, without your norm since you beat only low-rated players.

In an all play all the organizers should be able to figure out what score will earn a norm.

Is there a calculator to do this? Doesn't seem to be fun to do this manually.   http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=58&view=article

and  http://e2e4.org.uk/international/2011/Brighton_Feb/mastersB.htm

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This boils the rules down a little.  See Calculating Grandmaster and International Master norms.

Hi, I just saw this old message. Even in a round robin tournament the required scores for a norm can vary between the players in the tournament. The requirement for a player can even vary depending on who the player wins against.

I have made norm calculator at my web site. Give it the ratings of known opponents and the corresponding results, and it can calculate if a player have made a title perfomance, or which average rating for unknown players and score is required to make one. Find it at http://skaktal.dk/en/norm.php. Enjoy yourself!

I finally had to create a spreadsheet to calculate norms.

Your calculator works great. Looks like it takes care of increasing one opponent rating if it is too low. I tripped on that one recently.

I did have a bit of trouble entering a draw until I figured out I could paste the "½" from "½ for draw".

Yes, it knows about the adjusted rating floor. It knows that won games may be ignored. It knows that if the norm requirements are exceeded by one or more full points, then the length of the tournament is considered to be extended by that number of number of games. What it fails to handle, is the titles and nationalities of the opponents.

I did not consider that "½" can be hard to enter as there is a key for that character on Danish keyboards. What alternative character would you like to use to indicate draws?

It may save a few people some frustration if .5 was accepted. Failing that, perhaps "D" or maybe just add a note that the "½" can be pasted.

Now .5 and even just 5 is accepted to indicate draws by the norm calculator at http://skaktal.dk/en/norm.php. Thank you for the suggestion.

I am not able to access this. It says it is not a secure web site.

Resolved (hopefully) - FIDE Norm Calculator

I've also guessed it wasn't fun to calculate this manually.

I' m now able to calculate norms according to fide rules instantly in tournament up to 11 rounds (Robin or swiss).

- Print FIDE reports

- Switch last round results. (I guess it 's usefulll in swiss tournament)

So far it seems to work fine with the known example.

I 'm working with the "Tournament Report File crosstable (the report file sent to fide)

So that I have all required informations to calculate norm (Name, Fide #, Gender, Federation, Rating, Results ...)

I 'm in a testing mode so far.

Let me know if you have a TRF file example

Philippe, National Arbiter (only !)

FIDE norm calculator: https://tlchessfoundation.com/en/norm.php

Great post

Calculating chess norms manually can be time-consuming and confusing, especially with all the FIDE rules around opponent ratings, title requirements, and draw percentages. That’s why automated norm calculators are super useful; they save time and reduce errors by handling the logic behind the scenes.

Several online tools now allow you to:
Input opponent ratings and match results.
Instantly see if a norm (IM, GM, etc.) is possible.
Adjust for rating floors and FIDE title rules.
Export or print reports.
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