Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:03:32 08/14/05
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On August 14, 2005 at 11:43:01, Theo van der Storm wrote: >On August 14, 2005 at 11:20:13, Madhavan wrote: > >>Thanks for the games,I didn't find Deep Sjeng vs The Baron game on the Playchess >>server >> >>Did I miss? > >I didn't find Deep Sjeng vs The Baron game on the Playchess server either. >Gian-Carlo Pascutto (Deep Sjeng) posted it in this forum. > >>What's the time control being used for each game? > >"The format of each tournament and the rate of play will generally be determined >by the Tournament Director according to the number of programs entered and any >other relevant factors. The 13 th World Computer-Chess Championship (WCCC) will >be a Swiss-system event with 11 rounds in which the rate of play will be 60 >moves in 2 hours followed by the rest of the game in 30 minutes." > >>When's the next game? >>Is the tournamentround robin or Swiss? > >Both :-) It's 11 round Swiss with 12 participants. > >http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/news/wccc/2005/rules.php > >General Rules > > 1. The World Computer-Chess Championship 2005 is the 13th in a series of >World Computer-Chess Championships. It follows the tournament rules given below. > 2. The tournament will be an 11-round Swiss-system event, using standard >(non-accelerated) Swiss pairings. The provisional playing schedule is announced >on the ICGA website. I see no logic in swiss tournament here. I am afraid that it is possible that programs will have no opponents before the last round in that case unless the program that does the pairing care that it will always be possible to complete the rounds when every program has 6 white and 5 black or 5 white and 6 black. I am not sure if it is easy to prove by brute force search that it is possible but maybe 12 participants is a number that is small enough so it is possible to check all possibilities of pairing of future rounds. first thing is to care that everyone play everyone and later care about the colours. It is clear that every first round is OK and the problem is what is the first round that we need to be careful not to have specific pairing. I think that second round is too early to spoil the event and every possible pairing can be completed when every program has 6 or 5 white games but it needs to be proved. Uri
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