Author: Geert van der Wulp
Date: 04:24:21 03/02/04
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On March 02, 2004 at 07:14:39, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On March 01, 2004 at 09:03:21, Ingo Bauer wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I would consider all of your proposals as too complicated. >> >>You have 9 days where everyone can play 2 games. I agree that on the first and >>on the last day there should be only one game but this can be adjusted in the >>players conference. Lets assume 16 games possible. >> >>1. If the number of Participants is less than 8 play double round robin >>reverted colors. >> >>2. If the number of participants is less than 16 play rr (flip coin for colors) > >Flipping coin for colors in a round robin is a real novelty! Usually, the >pairings for round robin tournaments are already done, including colors, and >only the playernumbers are drawn at random. >José. Yes, but now it will be even more like a lottery :-) Some people just like to gamble. Regards, Geert > >> >>(here I have to say that I doubt that there will be more than 16 participants!) >> >>3. If the number is 17 (witch is the worst case for a nine round swiss) make the >>Tourney time control 2/40 + 1h/20 +1h so you play a single game a day, 9 round >>swiss. >> >>3a. Make it 8 rounds in advance. If after the 8th round 2 are on top play a tie >>on the 9 day 2 games. If still no decision is there, make it direct match, >>Buchholz or two winners (just anounce it in advance!) >> >>If in case 1, 2 and 3 there is no decision, make it direct match, Buchholz or >>two winners (just anounce it in advance!) >> >>I think that is an easy solution for everybody to understand. >>Bye Ingo Bauer >> >>PS: If you want to make a day off just adjust the numbers a bit. It should still >>work!
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