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Topic: Queen Alice 1st Anniversary Tournament
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 good games for all players!
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I uploaded the rules in English and Spanish for the Swiss System Tournament in the About Page. Translators have been notified so they will make their versions available soon.
For your convenience, below is a copy of the rules. Please go over the them and let me know if you have any comments.
Swiss System Tournaments
A Swiss System tournament can accomodate a large number of players in a relatively short time. For each round the system will divide the participants in groups according to their current scores and as much as possible will try to pair players out of the same score group. For the first round of the tournament all participants are considered to be in a single group.
Some interesting features of Swiss Tournaments are:
- Each player will play one game per round at most.
- Nobody is disqualified, all players play until the end of the tournament (there are a few exceptions listed below).
- Players are more likely to face opponents of a similar strength on each succesive round.
As with Double Round Robin tournaments, a win is worth 2 points, a draw is worth 1 point, and no points are given for a loss. Points earned are accumulated from round to round.
The server automatically generates the pairings in a random fashion while observing the following rules:
- No player will meet the same opponent more than once in a tournament.
- No player will get a bye more than once in a tournament.
- Whenever possible players will be paired with opponents from the same score group.
- Whenever possible players will be assigned alternate colors on succesive rounds.
- No player will be assigned the same color more than three times in a row.
- If the number of participants is odd, the system will randomly choose a player from the lowest score group and give him or her a bye for that round. The player will not play in that round and will be given 1 point.
- Players who lost a game because they failed to make their move on time will be disqualified and will not participate in the remaining rounds of the tournament.
After all the games in the last round are finished, the player with the highest score is the winner.
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How many rounds are there? Or does it keep going until one person has more points?
--p
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| How many rounds are there? |
Each tournament has a set number of rounds. For the anniversary tournament I tentatively set it to 6 rounds, but I may decide to change the number based on how many participants sign up.
I'm going by the estimation that for a tournament of N rounds it is best to have the number of players under N^3 (N times N times N). So 6 rounds are good for up to 200 players approximately.
If two or more players share the first position after the last round then the existing tie-break rules apply.
Miguel
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im in, good luck to all that play, what is the time period to play a move as i cant get online every day unfortunately? thanks, i dont want to get timed out !! 
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