Author: José Carlos
Date: 02:55:11 02/01/04
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On January 31, 2004 at 21:26:00, Will Singleton wrote: >On January 31, 2004 at 19:16:03, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I think that it is a mistake to change the pairing after players started to play >> >>What is your opinion. >> >>I think that it is possible that operators went to sleep after starting the last >>round and if we decide to make new pairing programs may get a technical win >> >>I think that the demage from technical wins is bigger than the demage from wrong >>pairing so pairing should not be changed after the games started. >> >>Uri > >I think it was correct to make it right. If the wrong pairings were played, the >noise would have been even worse than it was. But in the future, a procedure >ought to be in place to deal with that situation. > >One thing that might help would be not to start the games prior to the start >time, as many were doing. We also might want to wait for the TD to verify >things and to give the "go" signal. > >Will We were already more than half an hour late. Next time we should agree to fix the mistake on the next round OR make sure there's enough time to make the pairings and check them between rounds. Either return to the 2 weekends formula, which is my preferred, or make the games faster and with less increment, something like 30 1. Particularly I consider totally unacceptable to stop the games when: all of them are running, even one of them has finished (Chezzz-Chiron IIRC), the round started half an hour late and people is connected for many hours without a minute of rest. I don't mean to critisize Volker. He does what he can and I appreciate it. I mean we all should help to make this tournament better. José C.
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