Step 9 - Withdrawing and Tinkering

Withdraw a Player

Disgusted with his quick defeat, my opponent in round one informs you that he is withdrawing from the tournament and quitting chess forever. (If you entered all the players from Step 1, my opponent should be Kramnik).

This is a good use for the “player roster”.

From the main menu, select View|Show roster (the shortcut is the roster button on the far right of the toolbar.)

In the list of players that pops up, find Kramnik. Click and drag this name up to the Withdraw toolbar button. (It’s the one marked with the “W/D”.) Confirm the withdrawal when prompted.

You could also accomplish this by going to the Players|Withdraw menu and moving Kramnik to the withdrawn players list, or by selecting a player either in the player roster or in the wall chart itself, and then right-clicking the mouse to bring up a pop-up menu that includes the option to withdraw the selected player.

If a player has no games played when you do the withdrawal, then SwissSys will give you the option of deleting that player entirely from the roster.

Fix a Player Name and Give an Advance Bye

You are about to set pairings for the next round when two players come up to you — my brother and I.

My brother informs you that he has legally changed his first name to “Roach” and wants the charts to be corrected.

I request a half-point bye in round three so I can go make a few phone calls to guarantee peace in our time. You can handle both requests with the Tinker dialog.

Go there now by selecting Players | Tinker, or clicking on the wrench toolbar shortcut.

As with the withdrawal operation above you can use the player drag and drop shortcut with the Tinker toolbar button or use a right mouse click. Double clicking a player (either in the roster or in the main view chart) is yet another shortcut for this common command. Find my brother in the Tinker roster and click him.

You can now tinker with all the player information that you typed in at registration.

Make the name field the active one by clicking in it or tabbing to it.

Move the cursor to his first name with the arrow keys, then type “Roach” in place of “Damian”.

Although this is all he asked you to do, you decide to take another twenty points off his rating for good measure. (Highly irregular, of course, but if you knew him like I do you wouldn’t hesitate.) When you are done, click the “Confirm” button after you’ve made sure the changes are correct.

You can change most registration data directly in the main view as well. That topic will be covered in Step 11, when you will correct some mistaken results. Now it’s time to give me that half-point bye (assuming you think guaranteeing peace in our time is a valid excuse for missing a game.)

Get my information in the revise player data window by double clicking on my name, either in the main view or in the roster. Find the “Bye rnds” field with its two halves: the top for half-point byes and the bottom for zero-point byes.

Here simply click on the upper “3” to give me an advance bye in the round I requested — the third. Click on OK to return to the main menu, saving the new state of the tournament with these changes when the autosave prompts you. Click here to go on to Step 10 - Standings