redhotpawn includes a players highest possible scores in the cross tables, and starts the next round as soon as it certain who will progress.
The algorithm required is pretty basic, and should be implemented here too.
How to Speed Up Tournaments - Help!
Sort:
This tournament is being held up by two games that will have no bearing on who progresses to the next round.
http://www.chess.com/tournament/the-fastest---xiv
Here is one for you
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=45192995
The outcome is totally irrelevant.
Oct 14, 2011
0
#106
erik wrote:
We get occassional request to speed up tournaments because of some lagging games. I would like to see specific examples right now of tournaments that are being help up by games that do not matter to the outcome of the round or entire tournament and that are delaying the inevitable. Once I see some of these I can start to construct an algorithm to find them.
You can look here: http://www.chess.com/tournaments/current_tournaments.html - some are SO close to finished :)
I looked at this one: http://www.chess.com/tournaments/pairings.html?id=31&round=3 . There are only 6 remaining games. But on closer inspection, this game has impact on the results: http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=12319365
How do we programmatically find these tournaments help up "needlessly" so we can move them along? First check number of current games, and if less than, say 5, we run all possible outcomes of those games and the final results? My gut says there are just not that many events being help up needlessly...
so prove me wrong! :)
You asked...this tournament has been delayed by almost a year when it is clear the game has no impact.
http://www.chess.com/tournament/run-of-the-mill-fun-tourney
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=45836030
This tournament could proceed with no problem, everyone is clearly ready to go except two non-advancers.
http://www.chess.com/tournament/king-kennys-game
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=46848220
In fact, every tournament I've been in has been delayed when the advancing brackets have been determined.
Nov 5, 2011
0
#107
This is my first tournament so I offer my apologies if I'm boring people by rehashing old arguments. I thought I'd enjoy the long time controls, but this has become silly as I watch my opponents drag out their lost positions for over two days per move. This could go on for years. One guy has taken two "vacations" in less than a month! I doubt I'll enter another tournament. I hope I live long enough to finish this one.
Dec 18, 2014
0
#108
Doubt this thread is still being monitored by any staff, but here, in one of your own tournaments, are TWO examples of a totally irrelevant game which is holding up the tournament:
http://www.chess.com/tournament/27th-chesscom-tournament-1401-1600
Here is the last game running in a tournament I am running:
http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=42184627
Neither player can advance and the game is pretty much hopeless for black. This game started after all other games where completed.