Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 07:24:03 08/24/01
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On August 24, 2001 at 09:38:54, Tony Hedlund wrote: > >And why a odd numbers of rounds? Why not 10 rounds, then the players get five >white and five black games. > >Tony It is imposible to balance the colours that way in a swiss system tournament. To be precise, it is imposible to guarantee the colour balance. Most likely several players will end with 6 white and 4 black games, and other several with 4 white and 6 black games. For this reason most swiss system tournaments have an odd number of rounds. José.
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