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

Author: Sylvain Renard

Date: 12:58:28 08/23/00

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>A quick note.  When you have 9 rounds, and 14 players, it is _not_ a Swiss
>by any measure.  It is nearly a round robin, in fact.  I don't think pairings
>matter at all now, other than that the top programs should play each other
>one time.  Mistakes in the pairings will work themselves out.  It will screw
>up a color here and there, but eventually all the top programs have to play.

  Hello Bob,
I hope you are right, but imagine that one of the favorites (example: Nimzo)
wins the tournament without having played against one of the top
programs (example: Shredder) ?   Impossible?  In fact it should be impossible,
but with the pairing program they are using, I would not bet my head :-)
  Best regards,
    Sylvain Renard





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