Full-point bye

A full-point bye (FPB) awards, without a game being played, as many points as a win is worth under the tournament's scoring system. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) still recognizes FPB as a bye type in its tournament report format, so it can appear in official tournament files and results.

FIDE, however, treats the assignment of full-point byes as deprecated, meaning officially discouraged even though the concept is still recognized. Its tournament-software requirements say that software allowing such assignments must warn users about that status. Current FIDE Swiss-system rules also explicitly describe the full-point bye as FIDE-deprecated.

It should not be confused with a pairing-allocated bye (PAB). A PAB occurs because the pairing system has an odd number of participants and must leave one without an opponent; a full-point bye is a full score assigned without a game for another reason. It is also different from a zero-point bye, which adds no points.