Step 10 - Standings

After just one round the standings won’t be that meaningful, but let’s look at them anyway.

The multi-view standings chart appears in the middle of the main view, and that is a great way to get a quick, simple view of the standings at any time, but by changing the main view itself from wall chart mode to standings mode, you have more options.

Select View|Standings (or click on the artist’s toolbar rendition of an Olympic medallist’s podium.)

Setting Up Tiebreaks

The standings appear, but something is missing; there are no tiebreaks.

Click the “Format options” button (the one with the checkbox) and find the “Show tiebreaks” checkbox. Check it and click OK.

Still no tiebreaks showing.

This is for the very good reason that you have not set any yet.

Do that now by clicking on the Setup|Tiebreaks menu.

You are then presented with a list of the most commonly-used tiebreak systems, as explained in the USCF and FIDE handbooks and in this help file under the topic Tiebreak systems.

Click on “average opposition” in the left-hand box, then click on the right-pointing arrow to move it to your selected tiebreaks list. Do the same with “Kashdan”.

You can always change this tiebreak preference later. You could choose up to six tiebreaks, but don’t bother with that now.

Two or three is all that is necessary in most cases, so click OK and view the standings again. Printing the standings works just like printing the wall chart. Change some fonts if you want to, then preview the page, or just click the print button.

Continue with the Tournament

Do a couple more rounds now, following the steps outlined above: Make pairings, enter results, etc.

In making pairings this time, try some of the pairing options you are allowed to force, such as forced byes, pairings or board numbers. If you try something impossible you’ll get an error message.

In round three observe that I am given the half-point bye I requested earlier. With a small tournament like this it won’t take long for you to exhaust the legal pairing possibilities, at which point SwissSys returns a message that it could no longer obey Swiss system rules.

For purposes of illustration, call the tournament quits after three rounds. The tournament is over.

You are ready to go on to Step 11 - Correcting Results