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Subject: Re: CCT4 Dark Horse Predictions

Author: John Merlino

Date: 19:55:53 01/01/02

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On January 01, 2002 at 19:25:07, Volker Richey wrote:

>hi
>
>CCT4 will be played over 11 rounds.
>
>for a swiss tournament its better to
>play with an odd number of matches
>
>volker

You may be right about that, although I've never heard anybody actually say
that. Why do you say that, especially when an even number of rounds at least
makes it possible that most participants will play White and Black an equal
number of times?

I thought that the ideal number of rounds for a Swiss tournament was strictly
dependent upon the number of entrants....

hmmm....

jm



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