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Swiss Tournament
   

A Swiss tournament is a tournament in which players are paired with other players who are on the same score (or as near as is possible), while avoiding pairing players who have played each other earlier in the tournament. Although Swiss tournaments are primarily associated with chess, they are also used for a number of amateur go tournaments, notably the World Amateur Go Championship.

In order to make the pairings as fair as possible the pairing rules can become quite complicated (see, for example, the [ext] FIDE Swiss Rules). Because of this, the pairings are nowadays usually done by computer. Many programs are available to do this, and in particular any program that can handle the McMahon system should be able to handle the Swiss system, since it is really just a special case.

The Swiss system is so called because it originated in Switzerland: the first person to suggest the system appears to have been a Swiss citizen named Julius Müller (not to be confused with the German theologian of the same name), and the first chess tournament run under this system took place in Zürich in 1895.



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