Please explain how to interpret what is written in the results' column of Chess Results website - Chess Forums

JayeshSinhaChess

Jan 15, 2019

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Rd.	Bo.	SNo		Name	Rtg	FED	Club/City	Pts.	Res.
1	491	496		Rajendra Singh	1279	IND	Up	3,0	w 1
2	302	379		Chavda Naresh Kumar	1324	IND	Guj	5,0	s 0
3	661	649		Vaibhav Gautam	1224	IND	Del	5,5	w 0
4	525	842		Santosh Kumar	1150	IND	UP	2,0	s 0
5	577	798		Pavan Kumar Posa	1171	IND	Ap	1,0	- 1K
6	500	809		Umang Dev	1165	IND	Up	3,5	w 1
7	414	656		Harini Narahari	1220	IND	Tel	4,0	s 0
8	488	807	ACM	Yagna Priya Polisetty	1166	IND	Tel	4,0	w 0
9	544	858		Gurmanpreet Singh	1141	IND	Pun	3,0	s

For instance this is from a tournament I took part in. How is one to make sense of what is written in the results section (right most column)

Laskersnephew

Jan 15, 2019

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#2

Since there are an equal number of "w" and "s" I'm guessing that these might be the color designations in some language

JayeshSinhaChess

Jan 15, 2019

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#3

Yeah its very confusing. I can't make head or tail of it.

Hedgehog1963

Apr 12, 2019

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I found out from reading an old post on reddit that "s" means the player played as black. It makes sense once you know that.
Where they got s for black from I don't know.

[EDIT] Seems it comes from the German schwarz, alongside Wieß.