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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