Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 07:45:50 12/03/03
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On December 03, 2003 at 09:52:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 03, 2003 at 09:02:14, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>On December 03, 2003 at 02:27:55, Tony Werten wrote: >>>> >>>There's 1 more option. 11 rounds+speedchess could be easily played in 6 days >>>rather than the 9 it took now. >> >> >>Why do you insist on too many rounds in the first place? Has nobody been >>listening? 11 rounds swiss is too many rounds for 16 players. You might as >>well play a few more and make it round robin. >> >>MH >> > >Yes. 4 more would do the trick. or 19 more and make it a double-RR. > >The last WCCC event I attended in 1989 was 5 rounds. They slowly stretched >to 7 to 8 to ... to 11. Yet the field has gotten _no_ larger. I wonder if >it is a way of _forcing_ participants to drop large amounts of money in hotel >coffers? Someone should write a little piece of code with inputs being: number of participants number of days max rounds/day and optimal outputs being: type of tournament (swiss, rr, double rr, etc.) number of rounds number of rounds each day What would be so hard about that? FICS does something like this for their nightly 9:00 5-round 5 0 tourney. If the participants are too few, they make it a rr, otherwise swiss. It seems that they could do three rounds per day, max. I used to play in weekend swisses that had 3 rounds on Saturday at 50/120 g/30 and two rounds Sunday. The saturday could be gruelling, but since machines are the ones playing, it should be no problem, especially with auto-playing. Humans just get to watch and have fun all day long. Matt
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