Tournaments
Members may create round-robin and knockout tournaments, name them, designate a theme or dedication (e.g., Lasker Memorial Tournament), and fill the tournaments by invitation or allow anyone to join, by putting the tournament on the tournament sign-up page. Members can also join as many tournaments as they wish, but non-members can only be invited to special tournaments. There are two different types of tournaments: knockout tournaments, and all-play-all tournaments. Knockout tournaments allow two players to be paired for a game and whoever wins, gos to the next pairing. The one player who is left, wins. If the game is a draw, black wins. You can either have eight players or sixteen players in a knockout tournament. All-play-all tournaments are when one player plays all the rest of the other players twice at the same time. In other words, everyone plays everyone twice. One white, one black. There can be three to fifteen players in an all-play-all tournament. If you win a tournament you get a tournament norm.
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