Author: James T. Walker
Date: 14:05:37 08/23/00
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On August 23, 2000 at 16:03:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Yes,but would this surprise anyone?
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