Author: Günther Simon
Date: 06:49:21 03/30/05
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On March 30, 2005 at 05:31:53, Marc D wrote: >When i start a swiss tournament with 12 engines and 11 rounds it all >goes well till round 9, after that it says no more valid pairings found >and the tournament will be cancelled. > >Why does this happen although 2 valid pairings can be seen in the >tournament table? > >Is it a bug? > >Any suggestions would be appreciated > >Thanks in advance >Regards >Marc I never heard about any swiss pairing software that would pair this without special rules applying. Participants -1 rounds will hurt all known swiss rules for the last rounds, if the software allows this number of rounds it should perhaps warn the user and offer to break the usual rules, for the last rounds... This will not do any better than a simple round robin. Guenther
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