TieBreakServer

🚀 Install Tie-Break Server

• Downlaod project

• Install python 3, min version 3.11

• Install dependencies - See requirements.txt

• python pairingchecker.py

• python tiebreakchecker.py

• python tournamentgenerator.py

🦋 Common command line parameters

• -i <file> or --input-file <file> - Tournament file
• -o <file> or --output-file <file> - Output file, use - for stdout
• -f <fileformat> or --file-format <fileformat> - TRF for FIDE TRF-16/TRF-25, JCH for Chess-JSON, TS for Tournament Service files
• -b or --encoding - character encoding (ascii, utf-8, latin-1, ...)
• -e <number> or --event-number <number> - In files with multiple event, tournaments are numbered 1,2,3, ... use 0 for passthrough
• -c or --check - Check tie-break calculation
• -n <number> or --number-of-rounds <number> - Number of rounds in Tie-break calculation
• -d <delimiter> or --delimiter <delimiter> - Predefined delimiters @=Check-status B=blank, T=tab, S=Semicolon, C=comma, default is JSON output

🦋 Pairingchecker

👷 Command line parameters

• -a or --analyze - Analyze pairing
• -p or --pairing - Do pairing
• -m <method> or --method <method> - dutch, berger, or fideteam. C.04.6 art. 1.7 lets the rules of the competition choose one of three colour models, and -m names them all: fideteam uses the type A colour preferences of art. 1.7.1, fideteam-typeb the type B preferences of art. 1.7.2, and fideteam-nocolor uses no colour preferences at all. FIDE team Swiss tournaments are selected automatically from TRF record 192, which also names the model: FIDE_TEAM_TYPEA_*, FIDE_TEAM and FIDE_TEAM_BAKU select type A, FIDE_TEAM_TYPEB_* type B, and FIDE_TEAM_MP_GP, FIDE_TEAM_GP_MP, FIDE_TEAM_MP, FIDE_TEAM_GP, FIDE_TEAM_MP_GP_BAKU and FIDE_TEAM_MP_BAKU no colour preferences.
• -t <w | b> or --top-color <w | b> - Color on top board")
• -u <list> or --unpaired <list> - list of competiters that shall not be paired for next round
• -x <list> or --experimental <list> - list of kewords, "weighted" - use weighted

👷 Examples

• python pairingchecker.py -i <infile> -o <outfile> -p -dT
  Pair the next round of the tournament
• python pairingchecker.py -i <infile> -c -dT
  Check all rounds of the inputfile for correct pairing, output to terminal
• python pairingchecker.py -i <infile> -c -a -p -n <round> -dT -x weighted
  Check round <n> with weighted algorithm and write detailed pairing

🦋 Tiebreakchecker

👷 Command line parameters

• -t <list> or --tie-break <list> - List of Rank order specifiers, default read from tournament file
• -p or --pre-determined - Use rules as tournament has pre-defined pairing
• -s or --swiss - Use rules as tournament is a swiss tournament
• -r or --rank - Print result in rank order
• -u <number> or --unrated <number> - Set rating for unrated players

👷 Rank order specifiers

The Rank order specifiers has the form TB:PS/Mn-optlist

• TB - required, TieBreak name
• :PS - Point system name for team competitions,
  MP=match points(default),
  GP=game points
• #Mn - Modifier
  C=cut,
  M=medial,
  L=limit,
  n=number
• -optlist -
  Open full TB-list

👷 Examples

• python tiebreakchecker.py -i <infile> -o <outfile> -c -dT -t PTS GH:GP/C1 DE/P
  Print tiebreak values for the given tiebreaks

🦋 Tournamentgenerator

👷 Command line parameters

• -g <number> or --generate <number> - Generate <number> tournaments
• -p <number> or --players <number> - Number of players in the tournament
• -n <number> or --number-of-rounds <number> - Number of rounds
• -t <w | b> or --top-color <w | b> - Color on top board")
• -r <args> or --rating <list> - List of 3 numbers, <higest rating> <step rating> <sigma>
• -s <args> or --statistics <list> - List of 3 numbers, <rate zpb> <rate hpb> <rate forfeited>
• -x <list> or --experimental <list> - list of kewords, "weighted" - use weighted

👷 Examples

• python tournamentgenerator.py -n 9 -x weighted -p 15 -r 2200 10 50.0 -s 0.02 0.10 0.04 -o C:/temp/t_n9_p15_d10_s50/T%d.trf -g 10000
  This will create directory C:/temp/t_n9_p15_d10_s50 and generate 10000 tournamen numbered T0000.trf to T9999.trf
  Top color will alternate unless -t flag say otherwise