Round robin
Run a round-robin tournament for a club, a school or friends: FIDE pairings, results, standings with tie-breaks and a crosstable. It all stays on this device.
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About round robins
In a round robin every player meets every other player: once in a single round robin, twice in a double, once with each colour. Nobody depends on the luck of the draw, which makes it the usual format for club championships and small invitational events.
How this tool runs one
- Berger tables
- The pairings follow FIDE's Berger tables (Handbook C.05, Annex 1): who meets whom in each round, and with which colour. They match FIDE's printed tables for 3 to 16 players and continue the same way up to 30.
- Pairing numbers
- The order of the players gives each a number, and the number fixes their opponents and colours. FIDE draws the numbers by lot: in an even field, the first half get one more White than the second.
- Byes
- With an odd number of players, the highest number in the table is a bye, and whoever is drawn against it sits that round out. FIDE scores the bye as 0; it can be set to ½ or 1.
- Double round robin
- The table is played twice with the colours reversed. As FIDE recommends, the last two rounds of the first half swap places, so nobody has the same colour three games running.
- Forfeits
- 1F–0F and 0F–1F are wins by forfeit, 0F–0F a game both players forfeit. In a round robin FIDE counts a forfeit as a game played in each tie-break used here.
- Tie-breaks
- Direct encounter, number of wins, Sonneborn-Berger and the Koya system, as defined in the FIDE Tie-Break Regulations (C.07, 2026), in the order you choose.
It stays on your device
The tournament is saved in this browser. A share link carries all of it after the # in the address, which browsers never send to a server; whoever opens the link gets a copy of their own.
When players are still level
Players equal on points and on every chosen tie-break share their place. FIDE leaves the last split to a drawing of lots, or to a play-off if the rules of the event ask for one.