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Subject: Re: Open Dutch CCC final results

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:14:15 10/24/04

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On October 24, 2004 at 16:30:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 24, 2004 at 16:03:47, Richard Pijl wrote:
>>>In the future, wouldn't TPR be a better tie-breaker than that?
>>
>>I think TPR has almost the same problem as Buchholz in this type of tournaments.
>
>Don't you need starting ratings for that?

Lacking Elo ratings, you can seed everyone with a default.  I am sure that would
also raise some dander.

I guess a double round robin is the only way to make things completely fair (so
you get both colors against each opponent), and nobody has enough patience for
it.



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