Request for tournament crosstables

Running Chess Tournaments
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Hi,

I’m wondering if there are tournament organizers out there who would be kind enough to share crosstables from USCF-rated regular (not quick) tournaments where information on color assignment is retained. I would ordinarily try to obtain this information directly from the USCF office, but color assignment is not recorded on the USCF crosstables. Part of my academic research has involved developing models for rating chess players (e.g., the Glicko system), and I am interested in improving these models to account for color assignment, and specifically measuring how the advantage of playing white varies with player strength. I am specifically seeking crosstables of tournaments (e.g., exported-to-text SwissSys summaries) with the following features:

  • as many rounds as possible (at least 5 rounds)
  • regular time control (i.e., no quicker than G/30)
  • non-scholastic
  • Swiss events or round robins (not matches)
  • preferably open events where players of widely varying strengths compete against each other, but sections of large events would work too

Feel free to e-mail me directly at mg@bu.edu if you’re willing to help with my request. Your supplying crosstables will be appropriately acknowledged in any published work that stems from their analysis.

Thanks in advance!

   - Mark Glickman (chair of USCF Ratings Committee)
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Maybe this could be an optional item when submitting? Mike should know how easy or hard to implement, and whether the pairing programs could report this.

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WinTD can create DBF files that include color information, but I don’t know when we’ll start accepting uploads of them. (That involves extensively modifying or rewriting several programs to be able to handle editing and displaying crosstables with color information in them. There are no fields in the MSA database for color information yet, either.)

I haven’t heard from Thad Suits as to when SwisSys will be able to create those files.

I think Mark’s looking for data now.

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All he would need are the PTO files; he could then export them in the new DBF spec.

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I don’t know if Mark has a copy of WinTD.

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Hi Mike,

I’m sure I could either get a copy of WinTD, or recruit someone who has WinTD to help me.

  - Mark
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I just did a WinTD output to window, generated a wall chart, and then did a copy/paste to an excel worksheet. He said that he could use that.