This article is about points scored across a series of chess games. For the moves in an individual game, see Chess notation and Glossary of chess § game score.
In chess, by far the most common scoring system is 1 point for a win, ½ for a draw, and 0 for a loss.
A number of different notations are used to denote a player's score in a match or tournament, or their long-term record against a particular opponent. The most common are:
Format
Meaning
Example
A/B
Points scored (A) out of games played (B)
"... Fabiano Caruana, is second, with 7.5/11."[1]
A−B
Points for (A) − points against (B)
"Fischer won the tournament... with a score of 18½−4½".[2] The games played is the sum of the "for" and "against" scores, so in this case, Fischer scored 18½ points from 23 games played.
+W −L =D
W wins, L losses, D draws
"Fischer 6.5/9 (+5 −1 =3)", meaning Fischer scored 5 wins, 1 loss and 3 draws for a total of 6.5 points out of 9.[3]
+A or −A
Number of wins minus number of losses
"Fabiano came into the final round on an unbeaten +4".[4] This refers to Caruana scoring 7 points in the first 10 rounds of the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021, which meant 3 points were scored against him, and 7 minus 3 is equal to +4.
^FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss: Firouzja and Lei triumph in Riga, FIDE, 8 Nov 2021
^"From Morphy to Fischer", Israel Horowitz, Batsford, 1973
^Fischer – Petrosian Candidates Final Match, Chessgames.com
^Firouzja wins Grand Swiss | Caruana in Candidates, chess24.com, November 8, 2021
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