Over the years I became familiar with the vast majority of its features.
Speaking to ChessBase India, Tania said, I have been using the Swiss-Manager pairing software for a decade and from the first moment I was amazed at the program's possibilities. Tania Kareli is an international arbiter of "B category" from Greece.
Hence, IA Tania Kareli from Greece decided to make a complete guide of how to use Swiss Manager. Swiss Manager helps you to create pairings and ensures that a big chunk of technical organization of your event is taken care off. Although Swiss Manager is a user-friendly software, not everyone knows all the features related to it. If you are holding a tournament, it is almost certain that you would be using the software - Swiss Manager. A great gesture by Tania for the chess community.
Hence, IA Tania Karali from Greece decided to create a 51 page manual which covers all the functions of the Swiss Manager. It's completely free and the PDF document can be downloaded from the article. Currently 180 federations are using it and it has generated over 600,000 tournament files! Although Swiss Manager is user friendly, many of the arbiters and tournament organizers are not well versed with all its functions. It is developed by Heinz Herzog and is FIDE approved. It is used for preparing pairings during a chess tournament. To make it directly comparable to a 512 player 9 round Swiss I should probably have stopped after 6 rounds, but continuing to 9 let's you see what would happen if more rounds were played.One of the most important softwares in the world of chess is the Swiss Manager. Just to satisfy the curiosity of those (perhaps you included) who want to see what a tournament where white always won would look like I've constructed such a tournament with 2^6 (=64) players playing a 9 round Swiss. Moving on to the subject of expirmental evidence.Ģ^9 = 512 and I so I don't think anybody who isn't being paid to run a tournament with roughly 500 players is going to enter 500 players into a tournament file. If the number of players is only slightly bigger than the number of rounds (say 2 or 3 bigger) then it can happen in the last round, penultimate round in rare circumstances, that it is impossible to generate a legal pairing (no two players playing each other if they have played each other previously). There IS a problem which can arise with the Swiss system but it arises in the exact OPPOSITE way to what you describe.
So, there is a well defined algorithm which works in exactly the same way regardless of the scores and composition of players. In fact, the legend says that first came the Swiss Master program that was implementing the Dutch System, then the rules to be published by FIDE were modelled on the behaviour of such program. In its original presentation, the wording of the Dutch System was more similar to a software algorithm than a classical set of rules. Here is what the official JaVaFo website has to say: There then follow more paragraphs of complicated rules which, in truth, were generated from the original algorithms used by the first FIDE pairing program. In other words, in every score group there is ALWAYS an ordering. Here is what article A.2 of C.04.3 FIDE (Dutch) System says:įor pairings purposes only, the players are ranked in order of, respectivelyī: pairing numbers assigned to the players accordingly to the initial ranking list and subsequent modifications depending on possible late entries or rating adjustments I guess you might think that the pairing program would go berserk because with only two results possible for each game there would only be 2, 3 or 4 score groups and as more players play each other and so are ineligible to play each other the program would "struggle" to find acceptable pairings which meet the rules. This is one of four approved pairing systems: It implements the FIDE (Dutch) pairing system. The pairing system used by Swiss Manager is the FIDE proprietary JaVaFo pairing engine. This kind of stuff is covered in the FA exam. Thank you for clarifying the difference between NA (National Arbiter) exam you took in Germany and the full FA (FIDE Arbiter) exam. Will the pairing computer (definitely not super quantum) go berserk? Assume a 9 round Swiss tournament with 2^9 players, White always wins.