Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:03:30 08/23/00
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On August 23, 2000 at 15:58:28, Sylvain Renard wrote: >>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 If the top 7 programs (after 9 rounds) haven't played each other, then the software is screwed up and the TD is asleep at the wheel.
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