From: Andrew Lipscomb CHATTANOOGA NET> Date: 19 mar 2001 Subject: Re: Shogi Friendship Tournament in > Hello Jochen, > > would you please be so kind and explain once for the beginners > (like me) here, how to read a result table of a Shogi > tournament? > > I always wonder what these abbreviations 'MMS', 'SOS' etc mean, > as well as the 3+ and 1- and so on... " Pl. Name Str MMS 1 2 3 4 Pt SOS SODOS CUSS 1 Yagi Soichi 4d 4 3+ 5+ 2+ 4+ 4 10 10 10 2 Someno Shinobu 1d 3 8+ 4+ 1- 5+ 3 9 5 8 3 Engelhardt, Alexander 2k 3 1- 6+ 7+ 8+ 3 9 5 6 4 Majewski, Thomas 2d 2 7+ 2- 9+ 1- 2 10 3 6 " MMS is MacMahon Score. In some tournaments, players are given points at the start based on rank (higher rank, more points). Since the MMS and Pt columns are equal here, the tournament was a true Swiss, with all players starting from zero. 3+ means that in that round, he played player #3 and won. 1- indicates a loss to player #1. SOS is Strength Of Schedule, the total of the opponents' scores. Known in Western chess as the Solkoff tiebreak. SODOS is Sum Of Defeated Opponents' Scores, or in Western chess the Sonnenborn-Berger tiebreak. CUSS is CUmulative Sum of Scores, the total of your score after round 1, after round 2, etc. Another indicator of how tough a schedule you played.