Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:08:14 08/14/05
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On August 14, 2005 at 23:35:35, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On August 14, 2005 at 23:00:33, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On August 14, 2005 at 21:49:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>In thinking about this, this pairing seems to be totally impossible. There is >>>no way to be paired against #1 and #2 on rounds 1 and 2, no matter where Crafty >>>was seeded. >>> >>>As I said, "can someone explain this to me, using reasoning that I as a TD would >>>be able to follow?" >> >>I have been thinking the same. >> >>Is this a Swiss system tournament? If so, Swiss Pairings should have been used. >> >>If it is a round robin, then who knows what the hell they did. >> >>Trying this whole scenario in Swiss Perfect makes it seem this would be a Round >>Robin event and the seedings were WAY off... Crafty would have had to be seeded >>10th to make sense of it other than the two blacks in a row because colors would >>alternate in the RR type system. > >In a RR, the partcipants are "seeded" randomly aren't they? They draw lots. > >> >>Even if I won this event I would seriously question the validity of the pairings >>and seedings as they simply do not make any logical sense. >> >>Peter If it is a RR, yes. But a good way is to draw up the playing order, and there are plenty of RR charts published for this, and each player just draws a number from a hat to see where he fits into the pre-published chart. This way you already have 11 rounds paired, with 1/2 the field with 5 blacks and 6 whites, and vice-versa, and the rounds laid out so that you avoid having 5 consecutive whites and then 6 consecutive blacks... How this was done is beyond me... If they'd just explain it publicly, it would help...
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