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Subject: Re: CCT5

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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