Author: Pete Galati
Date: 16:31:07 08/30/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 11:13:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 30, 2000 at 05:29:35, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 30, 2000 at 05:20:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On August 29, 2000 at 19:03:52, Amir Ban wrote: >>> >>>>On August 29, 2000 at 13:26:36, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>The whole pairing was changed because of AMIRs fear for SOP. Now the last >>>>>round SOS gets the world title for free, the rest simply doesn't >>>>>count. >>>>> >>>> >>>>Why don't you take your lunatic ramblings elsewhere ? >>>> >>>>Amir >>> >>>If you don't show them in world champs anymore sure. >>> >>>Note i'm not lunatic you are. You even protested against a free point >>>against Pacque expert because it *might* influence your SOP. >> >> >> >>If you are right about it then the protest did not help so >>I do not think that the pairing was changed because of Amir. >> >>Junior did not enjoy from playing better players. >>The opposite Junior suffered from it because it scored less points(it could only >>draw against tiger and by playing against xinix in the last round Junior could >>probably get a better place. >> >>Uri > > >I don't understand the pairing issue at all. This is a mathematical process >that is finite and has rules to cover _every_ possible case. It is just like >teaching someone to do long division. The steps are cast in stone, there is >no room for varying at all. > >Why can't the pairings at WMCCC events be done the same way? There is no room >for "A really ought to play B". It is either "A must play B here" or "A must >play somebody else and B must play somebody else here." > >I learned to follow a simple recipe of instructions 45 years ago. It isn't >hard. Or is it? Based on some pairings over the past few years, you would >assume there is great flexibility in who plays who in each round. I have >run many tournaments (human) and there is zero flexibility. _if_ the pairing >rules are followed to the letter. > >The only flexibility is in which 'system' you will use. IE if you have three >players with a score of 4/5, what do you do? (a) bring up the highest rated >player in the next-lowest pool to fill this group out to 4? (b) pair the top >two players in this group and pair the third with the highest seed in the next >lower group? (c) drop the lowest player in this 4.0 group down into the next >group? etc.. > >There are options, but they are to be chosen _before_ the first round is paired, >and then the same rules are to be used for the entire tournament. Somehow this >doesn't get done at WMCCC events. At least not since Mike Valvo stopped >directing them. If by some odd miracle the next WMCCC _does_ end up getting held in North America (I'm not holding my breath), then maybe the program's pairings will be taken care of better. Maybe. I never tried to understand how it's done myself. Pete
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