Help - Tie-break?

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Group #282

	1	2	3	4	5	6	Score	Tie Break
1.  skyfly_nite (1441)	X	0  1	1  ½	1  1	0  1	1  ½	7	27
2.  DesJefferis (1538)	0  1	X	1  0	0  0	1  1	1  1	6	22.5
3.  BizmiardRM (1408)	½  0	1  0	X	0  1	1  0	0  1	4.5	19
4.  Caio (1571)	0  0	1  1	0  1	X	_  1	_  _	4	20.5
5.  perpetualstudent (1508)	0  1	0  0	1  0	0  _	X	1  1	4	14.5
6.  Ocre (1476)	½  0	0  0	0  1	_  _	0  0	X	1.5	8

The tiebreak is explained in tournament help. The link is available on every  tournament page. http://www.chess.com/tournaments/help.html

If he wins the remaining three games his tie break will be 20.5 + 4 + 1.5 + 1.5 = 27.5.

You would be second except those wins add to your tiebreak. Instead of the 8 points (2 * 4) he currently contributes to your tiebreak he will contribute 14 points (2 * 7). You would now have 27 - 8 + 14 = 33

In conclusion you will advance regardless of how the remaining games end.

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Thank you very much TadDude!

Very helpful indeed. Now I understand tie-break at last.

S

What is Tie Break?

The idea behind Tie Break is that the player that played better against the stronger competition to achieve the same number of points should be ranked higher.   However,  Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess says:

"There is no particular logic about this system which favours the player who beats the stronger player and loses to the weaker player, since it might be argued that losing to a weaker player is a more serious defect than losing to a stronger one." (quoted on a forum)