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Subject: Re: Pairings round 6 : swiss "perfect" makes very strange pairings

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:51:35 08/23/00

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On August 23, 2000 at 15:18:19, Sylvain Renard wrote:

>>It still seems to me that it is possible to do a better pairing with this
>>restriction(fritz can play Crafty) but I did not check if it is possible to
>>complete Fritz-Crafty to the other games.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Hello, the problem is not to do a pairing to please spectators
>or players but to do "the" pairing according to the (complicated)
>rules of swiss system. For the first 4 rounds; swissperfect did
>that very well; but know, it seems to have big troubles!


One of the early debugging techniques we teach in software engineering is
to "test the boundary conditions first".  If you don't think a 9 round event
with only 14 players will test the boundary conditions, you are way confused.

:)

It is a miracle it doesn't crash and burn.

:)



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