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Subject: Re: RULES FOR THE 12TH WORLD COMPUTER-CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

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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