Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 13:46:05 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. Playing 9 rounds with 14 players is really unusual. 13 rounds would be clearly better. This year in Massy (France) we played a 6 rounds tournament with 10 programs. It was not satisfying because one program finished with 4/6 playing all weaker programs and only 2 strong programs, and another on had 3/6 but played against all strong programs. Something similar could happen in London.
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