Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:48:28 06/09/04
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On June 09, 2004 at 14:47:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 09, 2004 at 07:59:09, Kolss wrote: > >>On June 09, 2004 at 07:28:09, Rémi Coulom wrote: >> >>>On June 09, 2004 at 05:36:44, Peter Berger wrote: >>> >>>>On June 09, 2004 at 03:54:25, Mark Winands wrote: >>>> >>>>>2. The tournament will be an 11-round Swiss-system event, using standard >>>>>(non-accelerated) Swiss pairings. The provisional playing schedule was given on >>>>>page 293 of the December issue. >>>> >>>>In case there were only 13 participants I wonder if it would really be possible >>>>to do legal Swiss pairings for 11 rounds - probably not. >>>> >>> >>>If we are 13, I think it would be best to have a 12th round and play round >>>robin. The playing programme has plenty of big holes. It would be so much better >>>to play round robin, that it would be worth the effort of organizing a 12th >>>round, in my opinion. >>> >>>Rémi >> >>Hi, >> >>You need 2 more rounds to make a round robin event with 13 participants (=> 13 >>rounds). I don't know whether the schedule permits for this... >> >>Munjong. > > >I'm not going to play myself. So 12 will do just fine and solve the pairing >problem, as it is possible to make sure that the top programs play in later >rounds so that interest is high. Swiss with 13 players, 11 rounds, makes >absolutely no sense. I didn't read carefully enough. You are corrrect that you need 13 rounds, where each player will have one bye since there are an odd number of participants. I was thinking of "number of games per participant" not number of rounds....
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