Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 16:04:37 08/23/00
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On August 23, 2000 at 18:40:45, Charles Milton Ling wrote:
>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pairings for Round 6 have now been retracted suggests that this was not the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.
Hello, if you had a look at the complete rules of swiss system (I have posted
them here) you have realized that they are _very_ complicated.
Usually, you have much more players and in that case I suppose that
swissperfect does a great job. And there was nothing to say about
the first 4 rounds. But with 14 players and 9 rounds, the exercise
is very hard at the end of the tournament.
I have tested some pairing programs I have found on Internet.
Unfortunately, some commercial programs have a free demo limited
to 3 or 4 rounds, so I could not see what they would have done.
For those I have tested, it is a complete disaster! They are unable
to do correct pairings for the second round! But for one of them, it is
normal because this software does not try follow FIDE rules.
regards,
Sylvain
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