Answers.Body: <p>FIDE document <a href="https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/C0402" rel="noreferrer">C.04.2 General handling rules for Swiss Tournaments</a> gives the answer:</p>
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  <p>Only played games count in situations where the colour sequence is meaningful. So, for instance, a player with a colour history of BWB=W (i.e. no valid game in round-4) will be treated as if his colour history was =BWBW. WB=WB will count as =WBWB, BWW=B=W as ==BWWBW and so on.</p>
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  <p>Hence your &quot;bwbwbbwf&quot; converts to &quot;bwbwbbw=&quot; in the notation of the document and that will be treated as if your colour history was &quot;=bwbwbbw&quot;. So you will have a strong preference for white, as you say.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Again, wonders of Swiss.</p>
  <p>Before the last round, I had bwbwbbwf. My opponent had bwbwbwbw.
  The f wasn't a colorless bye (I'd give up chess then :-) but a forfeit after pairings were out (due to sudden sickness of my R8 opponent). Is a forfeit unconditionally as colorless as a bye? (In that case, the colors are obvious, since my preference is strong w and my R9 opponent's weak b.) I read <a href="https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/C0402" rel="noreferrer">§C042D5</a> as affirmative of that assertion, am I correct?</p>
  
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Title: What is the color of a forfeit?
ThreadText: # What is the color of a forfeit?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-10-18)
  
  Again, wonders of Swiss.
  
  Before the last round, I had bwbwbbwf. My opponent had bwbwbwbw.
  The f wasn't a colorless bye (I'd give up chess then :-) but a forfeit after pairings were out (due to sudden sickness of my R8 opponent). Is a forfeit unconditionally as colorless as a bye? (In that case, the colors are obvious, since my preference is strong w and my R9 opponent's weak b.) I read [§C042D5](https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/C0402) as affirmative of that assertion, am I correct?
  
  **Tags:** swiss-pairing
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-10-18. Score: 8 | Accepted answer
  
  FIDE document [C.04.2 General handling rules for Swiss Tournaments](https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/C0402) gives the answer:
  
  > Only played games count in situations where the colour sequence is meaningful. So, for instance, a player with a colour history of BWB=W (i.e. no valid game in round-4) will be treated as if his colour history was =BWBW. WB=WB will count as =WBWB, BWW=B=W as ==BWWBW and so on.
  
  Hence your "bwbwbbwf" converts to "bwbwbbw=" in the notation of the document and that will be treated as if your colour history was "=bwbwbbw". So you will have a strong preference for white, as you say.
  
  
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