what is son?

I suppose i should be able to infer what it mean, but under the information about the tournaments there is a son number... what the ehck does this mean???

Take a look there

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(by the way, it's the sum of the product of the points earned in a game with the score of your opponent in this game) Looked at a finished tournament and see if you can make sense of this... (if you win 2-0 against a player with 6 points in the tounrament i contributes 12 to your SON; if that player gets 2 points more, you get 4 more in your son)

OK, now for the related question, where does the name "son" come from for this value?

I think it is short for Sonnenberger.

any references?

Complete "Sonneborn-Berger-Wertung". "Wertung" is "scoring system". Berger was a strong chess player in Berlin in the 19th century and more well known as author and editor of the "Berger", an endgame book, the state of the art till Euwe and Cheron came out with their endgame books.

Thanks!

My Googling skills are still lacking, because my initial search found nothing useful, and mostly all in German (so if it was useful, I couldn't read it)

With this additional information I found more information here: http://senseis.xmp.net/?SonnebornBerger

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