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Subject: Re: CCT6 - january 31th and february 1st 2004???

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 16:13:09 11/08/03

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On November 08, 2003 at 12:29:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 07, 2003 at 13:38:41, Volker Richey wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>The corus tournament is an another event at the icc chess server
>>Corus Chess Tournament - 9th till 25th of January 2004.
>>Many icc admins are busy during this time.
>>http://www.coruschess.com/
>>
>>My suggestion february 1st and 2nd 2004
>>
>>Peter, the best mode for a swiss chess tournament is an odd number
>>of rounds. Last cct5, we are lucky for the pairings of the final 9th round :).
>>
>>Another problem was the extra time for a possible tie break. see cct5.
>>
>>volker
>
>
>The only thing.  If we are going to do a tie-break, let's do it at the _same_
>time control as the regular tournament games.  Not blitz.  Or else let's make
>this a blitz tournament as well...
>

Interesting idea..  Back when I had more time I used to organize blitz
tournaments...  How many would be interested in a blitz tournament as well?
CCTs are great for testing the longer controls -- but something around 5 3 or 5
5 may be useful and entertaining as well.

-elc.



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