This is a swiss tournament technique
with the capability to handle Teams and Individuals. Players are grouped
into teams and barred from playing each other. The Team score is the sum of the Individual players scores. So far, it has been
used for Chess and Draughts tournaments
With this method, a swiss-alfred tournament produces both Team winners AND Individual winners.
This tournament method was invented by John Alfred in late 2005 and is now widely used in Ireland. Prior to that, Teams-Tournaments were run as Shoulder to Shoulder Events, and needed Sponsorship because of the high costs, such as paying Results-Collectors and Arbiters to help run it. The swiss-alfred removed that cost, and allowed organisers to fund events solely from Entry Fees.
Users include Ficheall.ie (since 2017), CheckMate (since 2010), ChessZ (since 2006), and Schools-Draughts (since 2006). In 2025, 300 tournaments were held Nationwide using the swiss-alfred tournament method.
A single person can control a 100-player timed tournament event with this technique. It is free to use and users should ideally acknowledge the Tournament style name.
