Author: Steffen Jakob
Date: 21:39:42 01/17/03
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On January 18, 2003 at 00:30:49, Roger D Davis wrote: >On January 17, 2003 at 14:16:47, Volker Richey wrote: > >>hi, >> >>Tommorow January 18 9:00am the CCT5 will started at the icc-server. >> >>Tommorow, i think i will post the pairings/results at my website: >> >>http://www.vrichey.de/cct5 >> >>its much easier. >> >>if a round was started, a game must be started 15min after the >>round starting time or the game will be lost. >>if both participants didn't started their game - its a draw. >> >>volker > > >Shouldn't it be two loses if both participants don't show up? Why reward two >people who don't show with a half point? I doubt that it would ever happen that >two players would both be over 15 minutes late for a game, but clearly it was >important enough to make a rule, and if we're gonna have a rule, we might as >well have a good one. In theory, it would be possible to win the tournament by >not showing up for a crucial game...probably would never happen, but the >possibility points to problems with the rule. I agree. One should not get points for not playing. Greetings, Steffen.
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