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Subject: Re: " D e e p - I m p a c t " Swiss 30 rounds, round21 + BIG problem :-(

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 13:24:44 11/08/05

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On November 08, 2005 at 16:03:51, Wilhelm Hudetz wrote:

>On November 08, 2005 at 15:51:36, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>
>>Hi Wilhelm,
>>
>>Do I see right, that you wanted to play a swiss tourney with 30 rounds
>>and only 36 participants?
>>In this case I bet the swiss algo in the F7/F8 crashes. It needs special
>>swiss programs to apply such a difficult task with rounds > n/2 participants
>>and even then some swiss rules most probably must be denied for acchieving
>>pairings in the later rounds at all.
>>(Normally you should not play rounds > n/2 in swiss tourneys)
>>
>>May be you can set up a rr tourney (just 5 rounds more) and fill in
>>the already finished results somehow, but I am not familiar with
>>CB tourney modes. I always use higly specialized tools for such
>>tasks plus a different GUI.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Guenther
>
>Hi Guenther,
>
>you´r right, the GUI can´t handle this.
>I tried severel things, but nothing works.
>Looks like I must end the tournament here :-(
>thank you.
>
>regards,
>Wilhelm

Well I looked into the manual of my own F8 and miss a note,
which warns users to set the rounds number too high in swiss
tourneys.
IMHO the manual should contain such a note to avoid misshaps
like yours before the tourney had started.

Regards,
Guenther




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