Chess Tie-Breaks | Chess Tie Breaks Calculation | (World Chess Federation Recommended Tie Breaks For Tournaments)

Chess Tie-Breaks | Chess Tie Breaks Calculation | (World Chess Federation Recommended Tie Breaks For Tournaments)

 Tie-break systems used in chess tournaments to break ties between players who have the same points.  If the players are still tied after one tie-break system is used, the second tie break system is used, and so on, until the tie is broken. Most of the methods are numerical so  In Today’s post ill show you what are the recommended tie breaks used in chess tournaments.

Note - Tournament Organizers can change the tiebreaks according to their preference but once the tiebreaks are displayed they can't be changed.

For different types of tournaments, the Tie-Break Rules are listed below and are recommended to be applied in the listed order.

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Individual Swiss Tournaments where not all the ratings are consistent: 

1. Direct encounter 
2. The greater number of wins 
3. The greater number of games with Black (unplayed games shall be counted as played with White) Buchholz Cut 1 
4. Buchholz 
5. Sonneborn-Berger 

Individual Swiss Tournaments where all the ratings are consistent: 

1. Direct encounter 
2. The greater number of wins 
3. The greater number of games with Black (unplayed games shall be counted as played with White) AROC 
4. Buchholz Cut 1 
5. Buchholz Sonneborn-Berger 

Team Swiss Tournaments:

1. Matchpoints (if the ranking is decided by game points), or Game points (if the ranking is decided by match points) 
2. Direct encounter 
3. Buchholz Cut 1 
4. Buchholz Sonneborn-Berger

Individual Round-Robin Tournaments: 

1. Direct encounter 
2. The greater number of wins 
3. Sonneborn-Berger Koya System 

Team Round-Robin Tournaments:

1. Matchpoints (if the ranking is decided by game points), or Game points (if the ranking is decided by match points) (Remark: Don‟t use Buchholz systems for Round Robin tournaments) 
2. Direct encounter 
3. Sonneborn-Berger 

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