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

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 05:59:36 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 08:52:22, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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.
>
>Answer is YES, swiss is a very good system. According to the rules when
>implemented well in the software it will solve it and make a correct pairing for
>11 rounds.
>
>With 13 participants i would vote for half a round robin though (12 rounds).

You'll need to schedule 13 rounds then (play 12 rounds + 1 bye).
Richard.



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