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Subject: Re: WMCCC pairings round 5 not in accordance with swiss system rules!

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 02:33:39 08/23/00

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On August 23, 2000 at 02:44:46, Martin Hasse wrote:

>On August 22, 2000 at 17:05:34, Sylvain Renard wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>if results are correct, there is a problem with the
>>pairings of round 5.
>>First 3 are correct (Shredder-Junior, Rebel-Fritz and Nimzo- Chess Tiger)
>>But then Crafty, ZChess and SOS have 2 points.
>>Crafty has already played against ZChess.
>>Zchess have to play with White (he had black in rounds 3 and 4)
>>SOS should play with Black (he had white in round 4)
>>Can someone explain to my why the pairing is not ZCHESS - SOS ???
>>
>>  Sylvain Renard (official arbiter of the french chess federation)
>
>Looks like the ICCA has no computer (program) to make the pairings
>automatically.
>
>isn't that one of the best jokes i have ever heard.
>they have time almost a year, they play with lots of computers,
>and they still work with little papers, shuffled on a desk :-)))

No. The pairings seem to be being made by a program called "swissperfect".
The lists of results and pairings have this at the bottom.

[It's just possible I've got the program name wrong, but I think swissperfect
is correct].

Andrew Williams



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