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Subject: Re: Color allocation in WMCCC round 8

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 02:36:43 08/30/00

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On August 29, 2000 at 18:14:30, Amir Ban wrote:

>On August 29, 2000 at 12:28:47, Sylvain Renard wrote:
>
>>On August 28, 2000 at 22:08:25, Bill Gletsos wrote:
>>
>>>Shouldnt the game between Xinix and Chesstiger in round 8 had Chesstiger playing
>>>white instead of black.
>>>Both Chesstiger and Xinix had color historys of 4 blacks and 3 whites with the
>>>colors for both players being identical in each round prior to the 8th round.
>>>Since Chesstiger was the higher placed should it not have got its matching color
>>>and been assigned White against Xinix instead of Black.
>>>
>>>
>>>Bill
>>
>> Hello,
>>you are right. But it is a detail amongst many other errors of pairings
>>in this tournament.
>>Rounds 1-4, nothing to say, it was OK.
>>Roud 5 : beginning of mistakes : the SOS and ZChess should have played
>>together (3 programs with 2 points Crafty, SOS and ZChess and all 3 had
>>opponents with other number of points).
>> As they _never_ played together in this tournament, this error
>>may affect the final results (the "amateur" (?) title of SOS for instance).
>>Round 6 : the pairings done by hand by the director has a vague relationship
>>with FIDE rules :-) (but it was better than the pairing done by the software
>>swiss"perfect")
>>Etc.
>>
>>   Sylvain Renard (Official arbiter of the french chess federation)
>
>Jaap v.d. Herik told me this during the tournament: Your comments are correct
>except that you do not take into account the improvised Junior-SOS pairing in
>the first round (Junior was supposed to play Ruy Lopez, the no-show).
>
>I am told that Jaap is an expert on swiss pairings, having guided students on
>this subject. I guess since you are an expert yourself, you will understand his
>point.
>
>Amir

Oh well i never saw Jaap carry swiss manuals with him.

That the first
round paired Junior versus SOS is completely different from the last
round where you play for a world title, or in this case don't play
for the world title.





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