Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 04:20:03 01/02/02
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On January 01, 2002 at 22:55:53, John Merlino wrote: >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. That statement has been posted here (with different words) several times. >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? > It is not posible to balance the colors, I even think that most players would end with an unbalanced number of blacks and whites if the number of rounds is even, and in this case the imbalance is of two games. With an odd number of rounds, obviously no player gets the same number of whites and blacks (I am assuming that there is no bye and everybody plays all the games), but at least the imbalance is kept small. >I thought that the ideal number of rounds for a Swiss tournament was strictly >dependent upon the number of entrants.... > It also depends on how level the field is. If the players are close on strenght, more rounds are neccesary. With a leveled field and few rounds there is usually a multiple-way tie for first place, with some of those players having faced none of the others leaders. >hmmm.... > >jm José.
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