How To: Create Additional Rated Games

The US Chess rule book cites several situations where it is necessary to put games into an Additional Rated Games or Extra Rated Games section. For instance, you might have a player who was set to receive a bye play a rated game against a "house player," while he retains the full point for the bye for the tournament purposes. Or, you may need to remove a player from a section in which she should not have been playing after she has played several games. The games were played, and need to be rated, but they aren't to count for tournament purposes. This can also be seen as a simpler alternative to Cross-section pairings and Cross-round pairings which put a re-matched game into the main tournament sections, as those need to be done very carefully to be sure that future rounds aren't disrupted when being paired (if, for instance, you fail to remove the player temporarily added to another section).

There is a fair bit of busy work involved. You might want to save a copy of the tournament as it exists and do steps 1 through 6 later, when you have time.

1.Choose the operation Section>Add... Since you'll never do any automatic pairings with this, you only have to set the titles and the "US Chess Rated?" box. Call it "Additional Rated Games" or something like that.

2.Create (or go to) a Players Window which includes the players involved in the game(s).

3.Select the players. Choose the Players>Cross Section Entry operation and select the "Additional Rated Games" section for the target.

4.Select the "Additional Rated Games" section you created in the Sections Window. Use Section>Enter Manual Pairing to input the games. (You can't simply copy the games over in any way. So far as WinTD is concerned, the duplicated players are different from the original ones). It's generally a good idea to have the round(s) in the manually entered game match the round(s) that it replaces in the players' records. Note that this means that you could have a section with no games in a particular "round".

5.Create a Games Window which includes your new games.

6.Double-click on each game and put in the correct result for rating purposes.

If you have transferred games that were already played, you need to do the following to correct these results for tournament purposes:

7.Create a Games Window which includes the games you are voiding. They usually will be the games of a single player. See How To: Check a Player's Games. Select them and choose Edit>Clear (Delete) to delete them. A simpler and possibly equivalent way to handle this is to change them to forfeit losses, which will not be rated.

8.Create (or go to) a Players Window for the original section. Use the operation Players>Assign Byes... to credit players with the proper scores for the rounds.