Number of rounds in chess/checkers

It would be time to finally fix the system of drawing rounds in chess/checkers tournaments. It is absolutely illogical that with 7 players you can often do 4 rounds in official tournaments, with 6 participants 5 rounds and, for example, with 5 participants 5 rounds! It is not appropriate for a mind games site that if there are 7 competitors in an official tournament, but more than 4 rounds cannot be organized!! What is the question then!!?? Is it just sloppiness or incompetence?? Or are chess and checkers no longer important on this site?

It is absolutely logical that if certain conditions are met, it is no longer possible to draw the next round without someone playing through with someone else a second time. And this should not happen. The peculiarity of Internet tournaments is that people are late and leave early. The draw program goes through all possible pairs for the next round and if the pairing is not successful. the tournament is ended. Now take this unfinished tournament table and try to put together the 5th round with paper and pencil so that two conditions apply: 1) The lowest player in the table who has not yet received a free round gets a free round 2) No one plays through with anyone twice.

If the opponent leaves, then the person present gets a point and it cannot be called a free round! If someone's opponents are afraid of someone, that's their problem. Lives are put in the table, for example, not points, but or -. It doesn't necessarily have to be a draw in the Swiss system for a certain number of participants, at all! Variants have already been proposed for different numbers of participants. If a person leaves during half of the tournament, he simply gets a loss in each subsequent round, what's complicated here? I repeat that this is not a free round for the opponent, whether in the round robin system or in Swiss. The topic is relevant in terms of options, then for the number of participants 6-9, probably. I believe that it would also cause confusion in the case of 15 participants in the Swiss system, if half of them leave, for example. After all, that's what a mind game site is for, to find good solutions!!

So a simple rule: those who leave also participate in the draw and lose their rating as usual. Special "system violators" should be punished... For example, a tournament ban for a certain period of time; especially those who deliberately try to use the JOKK system. If sometimes the net disappears and something more important comes up, that's okay, it still happens, but not, for example, five times in a row, especially if you lose in the first round and then just give up. You could even go for double-punches or something like that. There should still be options if you approach the matter according to your mindset. If there are officially announced 7 rounds and in fact 4, for example, with 7 participants, then the tournament results should be canceled altogether - as if they had not happened! Why wasn't it decided right before the start how to play if a man leaves somewhere!? The answer is simple: this man will get zeros and may also lose the right to participate in the next tournament - you can decide that way in real life, so why not online!?

You can't prohibit someone from leaving a chess/checkers tournament. It's happened to me too. There are many reasons, there's a thunderstorm, the internet goes down, something else happens, etc. It's not nice to fine someone either.

rababalm If you don't like the current system, then don't participate in a tournament with less than 10 chess players, no one is forcing you and you won't be fined for not participating.

In a thousand, for example, if 9 participants are not participating! As if 1 leaves for some reason or without reason or on purpose(!) the tournament ends and the player in front wins by chance. This is also the wrong structure. If someone leaves the tournament, it should not affect the number of rounds, which is in the rules AGREED before the start! If someone leaves, then he will get zeros, minuses or whatever in the following rounds, but the rounds will be played out, so what is complicated here!? If you can't organize it any other way, then up to 10 participants can play in a round robin system, where everyone plays with everyone and the whole jam, including up to 5 participants, can be 2-round (flash), the number of rounds depends on the number of participants, but so what! With the Swiss system, you simply cannot leave the so-called table before the end of the tournament, the player will get zeros and the rating will also run down - it's not complicated!

When entering a tournament, you can choose a round robin system where the number of rounds is always played to the full https://www.vint.ee/turniiri-sisestamine/ Why don't you do these tournaments?

Have you done them yourself, I haven't lately? This system, which I so-called traded out of Meikop, was quite strange; maybe it's better now. The number of rounds was played in full, but even when playing with 4 players and the 11th round, some people still didn't get to play with each other. You can do everything yourself and you can play live in any way and there are no problems even if someone has to leave. But why is it not possible to organize OFFICIAL Vint.ee tournaments reasonably, I don't understand!

Official Vint tournaments are for those who like the Swiss system (like me). Tournaments where the number of rounds is always played in full can be organized by any chess player (I don't particularly like these tournaments and I prefer not to participate in them).