Hi.

Come to think of it a pairings program that can just copy the present tournament with results already input included could be good as well.

What could be done to simulate having double round is to copy the tournament once point where double round should be turned on is reached, put all results as 1-0w.o. for winners and ideally 0,5-0,5w.o. for drawing players (seems weird but I think some programs allow this). Or if you wanna keep colour balance maybe adding some token player to the tournament in order to pair players with uneven colour balance against; with the real player having the colour they have more of. W.o. is usually colour neutral asfaik while bye counts as white for most programs I believe.

And then simply pair remaining rounds. Points would be the same even after changes. Colour balance should be good, since w.o. doesn't have effect on that. Order numbers (a feature of Monrad-swiss) should be remembered if using the original tournament and not the copy. At end of tournament (or when last round has been paired) results and pairings for rounds played before change can be checked in copy tournament and put back. Downside is it would be hard to know Bucholz score (or whatever tiebreak used that is based on previous results) before having put back all the pairings and results. In a blitz tournament that's probably not to important though. You could also pair the last round, put back all results, allow players to check table and then let the players play the round.

You may not actually need a pairings program double encounter off/on feature for this to make it work in other words.

Have a nice day.

Edit: Hoping w.o. doesn't actually count as players having played each other; which I think is the case.

I've played a tournament where the pairing system is standard. But you played two games with your opponents (one with White and one with Black).

• two wins: 3 points
• win and a lose: 1 point
• two draws: 1 point
• two loses: 0 points

It was both interesting and fun ! It was a semi-rapid tournament, it would be difficult with long time controls.

No 100% related to your question, but nice to point out this possibility. Especially if you manage the tournament. You only need a normal pairing program to do that. And you can simply use the standard [1, 0.5 , 0] possible result if your software does not allow to use other results. In our case, we used the 3 point bonus to discourage the mutual agreement in share points (one for you, one for me)...

Salut