Tie-breaks

A regulated criterion that ranks participants on equal scores without additional games, using tournament results or other data specified by the regulations.

Direct encounter is a tie-break that compares the points scored in games played among the participants who finished tied.

A tie-break that counts rounds in which a participant receives the full score awarded for a win, with or without play.

A tie-break that counts only victories earned in games that were actually played.

A tie-break that counts victories earned in games actually played with the black pieces.

A tie-break that counts how many games a participant actually played with the black pieces.

Progressive score is a tie-break that adds the participant's total tournament score at the end of every round.

A tie-break that starts with all tournament rounds and subtracts certain chosen byes or unplayed losses.

A tie-break that normalizes each round as a win, equality or loss by comparing the participant's score with the scheduled opponent's.

Buchholz is a Swiss-tournament tie-break that adds the final scores of a participant's opponents.

Buchholz Median-1 is a Buchholz variation that removes one least significant and one most significant contribution before summing the rest.

A tie-break that calculates Buchholz as if every paired game in the final round had ended in a draw.

Sonneborn-Berger is a tie-break that combines each opponent's final score with the points the player scored against that opponent.

The Koya system is a round-robin tie-break that adds points scored against participants who achieved at least 50% of the maximum possible tournament score.

A tie-break averaging the Buchholz scores of faced opponents to measure a second layer of schedule difficulty.

A tie-break calculating the average rating of the opponents a player actually faced over the board.

A tie-break averaging the tournament performance rating calculated for every opponent faced.

A tie-break averaging each opponent's perfect performance as calculated from that opponent's score and field strength.

A tie-break that finds the lowest whole-number rating whose expected score reaches the player's actual score.

A team tie-break that uses whichever score type does not determine the primary standings.

A team tie-break examining games among tied teams with the primary score first and the secondary score next.

A family of team tie-breaks weighting what was scored against each opponent by that opponent's final score.

A team tie-break that adds the secondary score to a normalized measure of the opponents' strength.

A team knockout tie-break weighting game points according to the number of the board on which they were scored.

A team tie-break progressively excluding results from the lowest boards until the tie is broken.

A team tie-break that compares points on board one first, then moves downward board by board if the tie remains.

An extra game or series of games played over the board to rank participants who finished tied.

A tie-breaking game in which one colour receives draw odds, ensuring that the game produces a winner of the match.