core/io.github.lunalobos.chess4kt/Tiebreaker

Tiebreaker

Internal contract for defining tournament tie-breaking strategies. Implementing classes must define how to calculate a specific score for a player. The interface automatically handles the creation of a descending Comparator based on that score.

Author

lunalobos

Since

1.0.0-beta.8

Properties

comparator

open val comparator: Comparator<Player>

A Comparator that ranks players in descending order (highest score first). It uses the value returned by getValue to compare two Players. The negative sign ensures that players with higher tie-breaker values are sorted to the top of the list.

name

abstract val name: String

Functions

getValue

abstract fun getValue(player: Player): Score

Calculates the specific tie-breaker value for a given player.