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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 20:43:09 06/09/04

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On June 09, 2004 at 08:59:36, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On June 09, 2004 at 08:52:22, Vincent Diepeveen 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.
>>
>>Answer is YES, swiss is a very good system. According to the rules when
>>implemented well in the software it will solve it and make a correct pairing for
>>11 rounds.
>>
>>With 13 participants i would vote for half a round robin though (12 rounds).
>
>You'll need to schedule 13 rounds then (play 12 rounds + 1 bye).
>Richard.

That's the easiest thing to do. We do it each few weeks at the chessclub when
playing blitz. 50% of the times of course group is odd. Having some pause to get
something to drink is great.



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