Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 15:40:45 08/23/00
I may be a bit naive, but I would have assumed that a software program purporting to supply pairings according to the rules for a Swiss-system tournament would be rigorously tested before release. The fact that the pairings for Round 6 have now been retracted suggests that this was not the case. A friend of mine has developed and marketed a program that does the same thing. (I believe it is called SwissManager, and when I say "does the same thing", I mean "does what it is supposed to do".) I have played in many tournaments where it was used, also in Swiss systems with many rounds in relation to the number of participants - e.g. 11-round blitz tournaments with, say, a field of 20. Not once did the contestants have reason to doubt the accuracy of its pairings. Evidently a) it *can* be done, and b) "SwissPerfect" is not. Charley
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