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Subject: Re: The 3/1 system is i.e. used in Lippstadt

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 09:05:27 10/28/03

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On October 27, 2003 at 21:02:53, Mike S. wrote:

>On October 27, 2003 at 19:42:38, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On October 27, 2003 at 19:08:05, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>
>>>On October 27, 2003 at 18:31:15, Mike S. wrote:
>>>>(among other tournaments I guess)
>>>>http://www.lsv-turm.de/
>>>>http://www.seminet.de/lsv/turniere/gm-turnier/gm-2003/live.htm#tabelle
>>>>3/1 since many years. I think it's an interesting alternative, with a bonus
>>>>for the "less drawish" player.
>
>>>I think it is crap.
>>>Consider the following example:
>>>
>>>A,B play against C and D
>>>A blunders a piece after 16 moves against C and resigns.
>>>D blunders a piece after 18 moves against A and resigns.
>
>This is a *Grandmaster* tournament :-))
>
>>There are of course counterexamples.
>
>Yes, for example that players like *Speelman, McShane, Chiburdanidze,
>Romanishin, Naiditsch* & Co who played there in recent years, are somewhat
>unlikely to attend tournaments with "crappy" counting systems.
>

Why not? These players don't get many round-robin tournament invitations.
The counting system is probably not very important for them.

Michael

>>Good night
>>
>>Michael
>
>same :-)



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