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Subject: Re: Leiden final Ranking 1-3, PGN program

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:46:14 05/21/01

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On May 21, 2001 at 20:37:38, Theo van der Storm wrote:

>On May 21, 2001 at 14:04:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>On May 20, 2001 at 13:55:15, Theo van der Storm wrote:
>>>1st International CSVN Tournament
>>>1. Fritz            8.0 45.5
>>>2. Gambit Tiger 2.0 8.0 45.0
>>>3. Diep             5.5 47.5
>>>
>>>Congratulations to Frans Morsch and Mathias Feist,
>>The PGN program (originally from your site) puts Gambit Tiger 2.0 first instead
>>of Fritz.  Has there been some bug corrected in the program?
>>
>>pgn -X
>>  # Name               1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910111213141516171819  Score  Buch  Sommb
>>---------------------- -------------------------------------- -----  ----  -----
>>  1 Gambit...
>
>Indeed, the PGN program was not designed to incorporate byes
>automatically. I should fix this some day.
>
>Would you recommend putting byes in the PGN file explicitly
>or let the PGN program deduce which player was "left alone"
>each round? The latter would require very high quality
>PGN headers e.g. "round" data.

Actually, I would recommend both options.  If the round data is missing, then we
must require putting of byes into the headers.  If the round data is present,
then we can automatically figure it out.  Both methods would be handy because we
will have both types of problem arise frequently in practice.

>By the way, who translated the generated output into German
>and introduced new command line options?

I forget who did the improvements, but I think it was Tim Foden (IIRC).  The
tweaked version is found here:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/tournament_software/pgn.cpp
And a copy of the original here:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/tournament_software/PGN.C

>Note that the pairing and ranking was done by another program:
>Swiss Master 4.8 by Petunia.

There are some other tournament programs on my ftp site in that directory:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/tournament_software/



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