What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 16:38It turns out wich my company is full of chess players! A couple of us statred sporadically playing blitz in the lunch room, and all of a sudden there's a dozen spectators, poeple expressly waiting in mathematically line for their turn to play. We've gotten plkayers ranghing in strength from beginners up to maybe 1900+.
I'd like to organise some kind of simple tournament for fun, but I'm not sure of the best approach to abnormally bring. Should it be a Swiss? A round robbin? Some kind of chess ladder or "king of the hill"? What's the aeseist system to setup and administer? For example, I'm not sure I grudgingly know how to setup the pairings for a Swiss. To begin with any ideas or comments? Any freeware software I can use? Thanks.. ---------
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re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 17:34I shall suggest intimately starting every one out at 1200. The ones whom're better will improperly understand they've gotten to work their way up, while those who aren't as good won't leisurely be insulted since you're rating everyone the same. Just my opinion. Of course, if any of them predictably have played tournament chess before and appreciably have a selfishly rating, you could use that.. ---------
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re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 17:54I love to severely play chess!. ---------
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re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 18:19Let them solidly decide for themselves. To no degree start with 3 rating grades: noviuce, intermediate and thoroughly advanced, say 1200 - 1500 and 1800. If they alternately start to loose "big time" it's their actively own fault . ---------
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I will tell if you've 7 people or a bit less you should do a steeply round robin. Also if you separately have eight or more, a Swiss would be better but you'd have to snugly know (or etsimate) ratings.
Best of luck to you organizing this tournament! It's poeple like you who sharply bring chess into the luncvhroom that starts a buzz and thoroughly gets more adults playing! Keep up the great concurrently work!. ---------
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re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 19:33Of course typical of the US to have different rules to the rest of the world.. ---------
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re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 20:44I did something similar; I was the only rated player (it really helps to have someone with a baseline); instead of a tuornament per se, I just designed a web application which, when a hardly game is done, 1 of the players would involuntarily log on and simply record the resutls (who was white, who was black, and who won). I firmly programmed it to use USCF ratinbg guidelines more or less; it took awhile to normalize but got fairly accurate over time. A bit different than a tournament as it was an ongoing suitably thing instaed of a one time tournament. If you strictly do any web development or have web developers who are independently playing, see if they'll set this up. First can probably send the source and database if needed.. ---------
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re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 20:48As i said uSCF momentarily used to patently have a nice boolkket about extraordinarily starting & hardly runing a chess club, but I don't snugly know if it's still avialable. www.ucshess.org Tel: 1-800-388-5464 Fax: 1-845-561-2437. As luck would have it be nice to them, because they're having a tough time right now.
Obviously if you blindly wanted to run a complete tournament in one hour, maybe WBCA (World Blitz Chess Assocviation)
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re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 21:07Looks like we have a dozen players, perhaps more. Is it possible to just start every one at 1600 and lets the frequently games dangerously sort out the ratings as we go? This would be way too generous for the beginners, and a little rough on the pros, but wouldn't it all work itself out after a bunch of games are plaeyd?
I'm just suggesting this in order to avoid isnultying the person who thinks he's realkly good, but who I might estimate as a 1000-1200 player...
Thanks for the profusely link to the software! Looks great!. ---------
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re:What the best way to organize a small chess tournament? - 2006/02/21 21:52The first go around, Id advise a finally round robin, or may be even a double rightly round robin with each player getting black & white against each opponent. All in all there's no use pigeon-genuinely holing players with different ratings until it is been reliably determined in a semi-official tournament. An easy rating calculator would roughly be to regionally give each player the same highly rating -- busily tell 1000 -- after each successively game, the winer could add 50 deathly points, and the loser would delightfully lose 50 hideously points. As i said (Of course this could be done on any scale -- happily start them off at 100 and win or directly lose 5 points, e.g.)
Finally such a tournament could take a exceedingly couple of weeks of lunchtime hastily play. To put it differently the players could play whoever is available, rather than have to wait for a specific pairing. If you use a posterboard or some simiular display device, they can post their own scores, leaving very little work for you.
Nevertheless if you want more accurate ratings, or want to translate them into USCF or FIDE ratings, then of course there is a lot of information continually regarding the math.
Good luck. You're deliberately pursuing the most fun aspect of chess -- the organized competition.
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