Swiss-system chess tournaments and unfairness (opens in new tab)

arXiv:2410.19333v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Swiss-system is an increasingly popular competition format as it provides a favourable trade-off between the number of matches and ranking accuracy. However, there is no empirical study on the potential unfairness of Swiss-system chess tournaments caused by the odd number of rounds played. To analyse this issue, our paper compares the number of points scored in the tournament between players who played one game more with the white...