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Swiss Tournament
Keywords: 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. The final ranking of all players in a Swiss tournament is usually build using the following criteria:
In order to make the pairings as fair as possible the pairing rules can become quite complicated (see, for example, the 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. This is a copy of the living page "Swiss Tournament" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |