FIDE Handbook C. General Rules and Technical Recommendations for Tournaments / 04. FIDE Swiss Rules / C.04.4 Other FIDE-approved Pairing Systems / C.04.4 Other FIDE-approved Pairing Systems (effective from 1 July 2025) /

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C. General Rules and Technical Recommendations for Tournaments / 04. FIDE Swiss Rules / C.04.4 Other FIDE-approved Pairing Systems / C.04.4 Other FIDE-approved Pairing Systems (effective from 1 July 2025) /

C.04.4 Other FIDE-approved Pairing Systems (effective from 1 July 2025)

OTHER FIDE-APPROVED PAIRING SYSTEMS

Approved by the Council on 13/04/2024

Applied from 1st July, 2025

Use of these systems is deprecated unless for a system there is a FIDE endorsed program (see, in Appendix "Endorsement of a Software Program" , the Annex-3 "List of FIDE Endorsed Programs") with a free pairing-checker (see Article 1.5 in the same appendix) able to verify tournaments run with this system.

C.04.4.1 Dubov System (effective from 1 July 2025)

C.04.4.2 Burstein System (effective from 1 July 2025)

C.04.4.3 Lim System