Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 10:09:09 06/10/99
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On June 08, 1999 at 08:13:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>I don't know who the TD is, but you can tell him for me that this is _stupid_.
>All he has to do is ask _any_ legitimate TD and he'll discover that accelerated
>pairings are _wrong_ when you have more than log2(players) rounds. And since
>2^7 (7 rounds) is > number of players, this is useless...
I suppose it will be the same as in Paris 1997 : the decisions are taken
by Mr Marsland , Levy, Van den Herik (the board of ICCA). If there is an
official arbiter to do the pairings, he will have to execute the orders
even if he thinks they are stupid.
The tournament rules have been published.
Rule n°4 : "The tournament will be a 7-round Swiss-system event, using standard
(non-accelerated) swiss pairings. ... "
Changing this rule now would be scandalous.
In this event, we don't know if there will be an official arbiter to do the
pairings. The complete rules of the Swiss-system are rather complex
(7 pages in french with the comments) and I don't think you can do the pairings
without error if you are just a self-declared TD...
Another important point is the ranking of the programs : nobody knows it (except
the ICCA organizers) ! This situation would never be accepted by human players
even in subregional tournament!
To make things clear, an official ranking should be created. The number of
programs is much smaller compared with human chess players, so I don't
think it is a terrible task to manage this. The ICCA would decide
which tournaments can be taken into account.
Best regards,
Sylvain Renard
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