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Subject: Re: CH-system with few participants

Author: Jens Kahlenberg

Date: 11:56:16 07/11/04

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On July 11, 2004 at 14:50:53, Ingo Althofer wrote:

>On July 11, 2004 at 14:46:08, Jens Kahlenberg wrote:
>>On July 11, 2004 at 13:52:04, Ingo Althofer wrote:
>>> ...
>>>But in Ramat-Gan they play normal CH.
>>>It may even be that also in the last round none of your two
>>>wish-pairings will happen.
>>>
>>>Ingo Althofer.
>>
>>
>>1. ParSOS           - Junior
>>2. Falcon           - Shredder
>>3. Jonny            - Fritz
>>4. Crafty           - Woodpusher 1997
>>5. The Crazy Bishop - Deep Sjeng
>>6. FIBChess         - Diep
>>7. IsiChess         - Movei
>>
>>Would be feasible pairings according to FIDE-rules for swiss pairing system
>>(Manila '92). I wonder what kind of tournament software is used in Ramat-Gan?!
>>Round 9 and especially round 7 were a little bit "ugly" too.
>
>
>That looks indeed nicer.
>
>But, when you let a computer program make the pairings fully
>automatically, things like in Ramat-Gan happen. A program does
>not recognize how dull a pairing is.
>
>Ingo Althofer.

By other words: The program used in Ramat-Gan _is not_ following the
FIDE-algorithm. Don't know what kind of algorithm is used, but pairings of round
7,9 and 10 are hurting the current rules from Manila '92.

Jens Kahlenberg



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