Author: Graham Banks
Date: 22:36:56 07/11/04
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On July 11, 2004 at 15:07:01, Amir Ban wrote: >On July 11, 2004 at 14:46:08, Jens Kahlenberg wrote: > >>On July 11, 2004 at 13:52:04, Ingo Althofer wrote: >> >>>On July 11, 2004 at 13:40:05, Volker Richey wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>>Round 10: >>>>>1. The Crazy Bishop - Junior >>>>>2. FIBChess - Shredder >>>>>3. Fritz - Diep >>>>>4. Crafty - ParSOS >>>>>5. Jonny - Deep Sjeng >>>>>6. Woodpusher 1997 - Falcon >>>>>7. IsiChess - Movei >>>> >>>> >>>>Why? >>>> >>>>1. The Crazy Bishop - Junior >>>>2. FIBChess - Shredder >>>> >>>>And not: >>>>1. ParSOS - Junior >>>>2. Falcon - Shredder ??? >>> >>>That happens when there is a CH system for a tournament >>>with only few participants. The program has to take into >>>account all participants and only the ones with most points. >>> >>>Pairings would look more "appropriate" in some "relaxed CH", for instance: >>>in the last third of the tournament participants with less then >>>33 percent of the points are allowed to play more than once against >>>the same opponent. >>> >>>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. >> > >I agree. I think the pairing software give precedence to getting colors right. >At this stage of the tournament this is utterly wrong priority. The leaders >should get the strongest challenge that remains, and this is much more important >than that say IsiChess get the right number of whites/blacks. > >Amir Hi Amir, what you say is quite reasonable, but a TD can't change the pairing rules mid tournament. All the best in your final games. Your program is very entertaining. Graham.
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