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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