Swiss Pairings — Sabrina Chevannes

Schools & Camps

A group holds a saved roster — a school class, a camp's players for the week, a regular club night. Link a new tournament to a group and its current roster fills in automatically, instead of re-adding the same players every time. Each group also keeps a history of every tournament run against it.

Tournament details

Name

Number of rounds

Format

Fixed rounds: the usual Swiss format, everyone plays the same round at the same time. Drop-in / camp mode: for when players finish at different speeds, e.g. kids at a camp. Pair whoever's been waiting longest against the best available opponent as soon as a board frees up, no need to wait for a full round to finish.

Add player

Name

ECF grade (optional)

Players with a grade are ranked automatically, highest first. Ungraded players join at the bottom in the order you add them — drag any row to reorder. This ranking order is also used as the tie-break for pairing order in later rounds, so get it right before you start.

Initial ranking

#	Name	Grade

Avoid pairing

For siblings, players who don't get on, or best mates who'd rather not face off. The pairing engine will try to keep them apart, floating a match up or down by up to a point if that's what it takes — but not more than that, and not if they're both tied for the tournament lead, since letting them dodge each other there would hand a joint top placing to two people who never actually played.

and

Standings

Rank	Name	Grade	Pts	Buchholz	Bucholz Cut 1	Colours (W/B)	Performance grade

Performance grade uses the official ECF formula (opponent's grade − 50 + 100×result, capped at a 40-point gap) averaged across games against graded opponents. Byes and games against ungraded opponents aren't counted. If the player themselves has no grade, the 40-point cap can't be applied, so their figure is uncapped and indicative only.

Owed make-up games

From absences marked "owed make-up game" rather than a half-point bye \u2014 no points until it's actually played. Enter a result here whenever both players are next in the room.

Full pairings & results history

Export

Print opens the standard browser print dialog — choose "Save as PDF" there for a PDF copy. The print layout includes the current pairings and full standings, formatted for A4.

Backup & restore

Use this whenever you move to a new copy of this file, e.g. after a fix or update: download a backup from the file you're using now, open the new file, then pick that backup file here. Every tournament carries over, this doesn't depend on the file being in the same location.