Tournament properties

This list shows the properties of a tournament.

Tournament properties: Meaning of the columns
League	Determines the player type. HCL - Human Chess League Tournaments for real human beings. Chess engines are not allowed here! ACL - Advanced Chess League Tournaments for human players that may use a chess engine for analysis. CCL - Computer Chess League Tournaments for computers. This league can be used to let your chess program play with other chess engines. You must not interfere with the moves of your program! Each league has an independent rating system. Games played in the ACL do not influence the ratings in the HCL and vice versa.
Computers	Indicates if chess engines are allowed. (A chess engine is a computer or program that calculates moves)
Class	The class of this tournament. C, B, A, E, M Normal classes. You can be promoted to the next higher class if you win such a tournament (analogously for demotion). T - Thematics Thematic tournaments played with a certain opening variant. S - Swiss Swiss tournaments.
P / D	Can you be promoted or demoted in this tournament?
Variant	The starting position of all games of this tournament. Here, Standard denotes the "normal" setup of the chess board. You can click here to see this ground position.
Type	The type of this tournament: Robin = round robin tournament Swiss = swiss tournament
Access	Access restrictions: all = open for everybody established = you need more than 2 valid games "under your belt" members = paying members only
State	open = still open for new players running = seats are taken, games are still running finished = all games are over
Players	The number of free seats and the maximum number of players.
Rounds	This term has a double meaning, depending on the tournament type. Round robin tournaments The number of games you play with each player. In a 4 player tournament with 2 rounds you have to play 6 games [2 * (4-1)]. Swiss tournaments The number of games you play sequentially. In a 9 round swiss tournament you play 9 games with different opponents. These games are not played in parallel, but one game after the other.
Games	The total number of games you have to play in this tournament. Your game limit must allow for this number of games.
Clock	The pace of the games. The first number is the number of days you get on your clock when the game starts (as a security buffer). The second number is the time per move (in hours) you have on average.
Avg. PCR	The average rating of all players.
Finished	The number of finished games and the total number of games played in this tournament.
Start	The time the tournament started.
End	The time the tournament ended.