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Subject: Re: RULES FOR THE 12TH WORLD COMPUTER-CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Author: Rémi Coulom

Date: 04:28:09 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 05:36:44, Peter Berger wrote:

>On June 09, 2004 at 03:54:25, Mark Winands wrote:
>
>>2.     The tournament will be an 11-round Swiss-system event, using standard
>>(non-accelerated) Swiss pairings. The provisional playing schedule was given on
>>page 293 of the December issue.
>
>In case there were only 13 participants I wonder if it would really be possible
>to do legal Swiss pairings for 11 rounds - probably not.
>

If we are 13, I think it would be best to have a 12th round and play round
robin. The playing programme has plenty of big holes. It would be so much better
to play round robin, that it would be worth the effort of organizing a 12th
round, in my opinion.

Rémi

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