Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:07:27 03/01/04
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On March 01, 2004 at 17:31:23, Claudio Della Corte wrote: >First of all thanks for your answer, then I examine each point. > >>(I suppose you mean a HALF round robin. >>single round robin means 2 games each rounds would total 6 games, of course in >>volleyball it doesn't matter but in chess, white is a HUGE advantage) > >Ok, that's a definition, and the white/black problem holds for swiss tournament >too. > >> >>>next phase. >> >>You are missing the point completely. How many participants will show up at the >>world champs computerchess when 25% can expect to go home after 3 rounds? >> >>Note that around 1997 and 1999 there was a stop on the number of participants. >>It was limited to 30. With your proposal it will get like 4 commercial entries >>or so, falcon getting 5th and movei to end as last. >> >>The only advantage of that is that you can play a full round robin of 2x 5 >>rounds with 6 participants which of course tournament organisation will do with >><= 12 participants. > >Eliminated players could play 2 rounds semifinals and finals for 13-16th >place... and later players not qualyfing for quarter-final do the same for the >9-12th place. If you consider FIDE World Championship, half of the players leave >the tournament after just one round, so what? And what about football (soccer) >worldcup? Argentina, the strongest national team of the planet, left the last >edition after just three games... >Anyway I understand probably chess is not ready for this kind of spectacular >tournaments, and being computerchess an amatorial event, it's right to give the >priority to the number of participants. By my point of view, swiss is boring, >and furthermore most of players end up scoring almost the same amount of points >in the middle of the table. >Regards, >Claudio If you leave the world champs fide after the first round, you go home with 10000 dollar in your pocket. If you play the world champs computerchess, you must invest 10000 dollar (trip + hardware) you don't get it with you. I hope you realize the big difference.
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