Tie break....

I'm playing in the Tony Miles Memorial Tournament, but can't get my head round the Tie Break scoring system. Very weird.

I'm not shure what kind of tie-break you have in the UK, but (most of) the ones in america are like this.

note: this does not happen in round robbins

you get tie-break points for who you play so if a person rated 965 played someone rated 1529 the 965 person would get a certain number of tiebreaker points (that number is decided by how many players there are in the tournament and what thier ratings are) this number will not be different if the 965 player wins draws or loses. the tie-breaker points are added up and if that player is in a tie-breaker the one with higest tie breaker points wins. If the two people have the same tie-breaker points (wich rarly happens) they are put through a diffrent tie-breaker.

this all is done by the computer in les than .14 seconds

Thank you for that.  After studying the tie breaker system in the tournament, it appears that you score tie breaker points if you opponant simply doesn't play as well, confusing. Must be my age lol.

It is the opposite. Bigger tiebreak points come from the higher scoring players.

From tournament help  http://www.chess.com/tournaments/help.html#tiebreak

Take your individual score against each opponent and multiply by his total score. Add this number for all opponents. 

Group #8

	1	2	3	4	5	Score	Tie Break
1.  Lotsamates (1853)	X	1  1	1  _	1  1	_  _	5	4
2.  Croalin (2027)	0  0	X	_ _	1  _	1  _	2	0
3.  ThomasK (1708)	_  0	_  _	X	_ _	_  _	0	0
4.  paulthepawn59 (1610)	0  0	_  0	_  _	X	_  _	0	0
5.  RushSoccer21 (1329)	_ _	_  0	_ _	_ _	X	0	0

2 individual points vs Croalin with 2 total points = 4 tiebreak points

1 individual point vs ThomasK with 0 total points = 0 tiebreak points

2 individual points vs paulthepawn59 with 0 total points = 0 tiebreak points

0 individual points vs RushSoccer21 with 0 total points = 0 tiebreak points

Total tiebreak currently is 4 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 4

Thanks for explaining TadDude, very much appreciated