Final Standings

The rating is based on individual game results, not on final tournament standings. Therefore the database does not contain final tournament standings.

Tournament evaluation differs fundamentally from rating. At the end of a tournament, the organizer must present a local rating solely based on the performance of all players during the event. In practice there are many obstacles to overcome:

• Most tournaments have many participants and because of the duration of a single game they cannot play full round-robin tournaments. Therefore there is no information on how a particular participant plays against all others.
• Even worse: If the number of players is odd, then one player remains unpaired. Obviously these players cannot win, but they cannot lose either. Therefore they must earn something between a win and a loss.
• There are latecomers, withdrawals, and disqualified.
• Sometimes players agree on a draw before even doing the first move.

All these situations must be handled by the organizers by introducing surrogates for un-played games. On the other hand these faked data cannot be used to determine the strength of a player.

But actually in most cases the final standings can be derived from the results of all games. But keep in mind that the standing presented here are unofficial and that they are not used for calculating the rating.