Answers.Body: <p>You should start with the section of the FIDE web site which describes the <a href="http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=18&amp;view=category" rel="nofollow">Swiss Rules</a>. This has sections giving detailed descriptions of the different systems for making the pairings along with much other useful information.</p>
  
  <p>It is also worth looking at the <a href="http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=20&amp;view=category" rel="nofollow">FIDE Tournament Rules</a> which includes tables for round robin tournaments and descriptions of tie break methods which it is good to also have in a pairing program.</p>
  
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  I can help when you have started and you are stuck
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Body: <p>I'm thinking about to develop an online service to provide free software for helping chess tournaments organizers with pairing systems like swiss, round robin, team-swiss, team-round robin.</p>
  
  <p>Could you, please, send me some learning materials how those pairing systems work?</p>
  
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Title: How to write a swiss pairing software
ThreadText: # How to write a swiss pairing software
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-19)
  
  I'm thinking about to develop an online service to provide free software for helping chess tournaments organizers with pairing systems like swiss, round robin, team-swiss, team-round robin.
  
  Could you, please, send me some learning materials how those pairing systems work?
  
  **Tags:** learning, software
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-02-19. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  You should start with the section of the FIDE web site which describes the [Swiss Rules](http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=18&view=category). This has sections giving detailed descriptions of the different systems for making the pairings along with much other useful information.
  
  It is also worth looking at the [FIDE Tournament Rules](http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=20&view=category) which includes tables for round robin tournaments and descriptions of tie break methods which it is good to also have in a pairing program.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: @harcos You're welcome. If you found the answer useful you can click on the up arrow.  
  > **username_2**: @harcos did you write some code ?  
  > **username_0**: yes, hopefully it's goind to be online in the next month, are you interested, @username_2 ?  
  > **username_2**: Sure @harcos ;) I do some Java programming and I would like to know how to implement the swiss pairing method :)  
  > **username_0**: All my implementation is based on the rules given by Brian: http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=18&view=category  I can help when you have started and you are stuck  
  
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