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GPCF Library

The Greater Peoria Chess Foundation Library

You may check one or two books out for up to two weeks and then return the book(s) or request renewal for another two weeks. Please do not write in any of the books, or mark pages. Please leave the book in the same condition for future users. The books may be picked up at Peoria Academy on Tuesdays, Hult on Fridays or the Lakeview Chess club on Monday nights.

E-mail your requests to: Mike Leali.

Tie-Breaks

Money prizes are always split when more than one player ties for a tournament prize, but some non-monitary prizes, for example trophies, cannot be split and so some way must be devised to determine who among those with the same score should most equitably receive the prize. There have been many tie-break systems devised to try and accomplish this task. There is no perfect tie-break system, all have strengths and weaknesses. Tournament directors try to find the one that they believe is the most fair for their tournament.

When tie-breaks are used they are announced ahead of the start of the tournament. The one's used can be found in the tournament annoucements and fliers and should also be posted at the tournament site. Frequently one tie-break system may not break all the ties and most tournaments use several tie-breaks, caluclated in sequence, to determine the final tournament rank of the players.

The following lists of tie-breaks are among the most popular:
Solkoff
Modified_Median
Sonneborn-Berger
Performance_of_Opposition
Average_Opposition

Links

Greater Peoria Chess Federation (GPCF)
Bloomington-Normal Scholastic Chess
Chess Teachers (Chicago)
United States Chess Federation (USCF)
Illinois Chess Assocaition (ICA)
Illinois Valley Chess Club (LaSalle-Peru)
Colley's Chess Club