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Subject: Re: Problem with tournament function in Fritz 8 GUI

Author: Marc D

Date: 09:01:51 03/30/05

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On March 30, 2005 at 09:49:21, Günther Simon wrote:

>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

Thanks..that was my fault.
I didn't know that

Marc



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