Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:06:20 05/31/99
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On May 30, 1999 at 17:02:28, Sylvain Renard wrote: >On May 29, 1999 at 13:43:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Occasionally the TD will 'lose it' and go to the silly 'accelerated pairing' >>approach where you pair round one by pretending that round 1 has already been >>played and the top half beat the bottom half 100%. This is normal when you have >>a large number of entries and fewer than log2(entries) of rounds. In the WCCC >>/ WMCCC events it is stupid to do this. But that doesn't prevent it from being >>done... > > Dear Mr Hyatt, >I am very glad to read that. I helped Mr Van den Herik during the 15th World >Microcomputer Chess Championships in Paris (1997) for the pairings. I used >exactly the same arguments but there was nothing to do! The accelerated >pairing was his idea and nothing could make him change his mind. >His main argument was that there was a gap between the "strong" >programs and the "weak" programs in this tournament. That's we all >saw when the "strong" program Fritz lost against the "weak" program >Stobor... -:) > >Best regards, > Sylvain Renard (official arbiter of the French Chess Federation) The worst effect is that by the last round, all the strong programs had played, the tournament was over, unless a strong program lost to a weaker program in the last round. But you/I were correct... the idea was _wrong_. It was a case of someone finding something "new" (I suppose) (accelerated pairings) and then applying it in the wrong circumstance. The only reason for doing this is if there is a big 'gap' and too few rounds. At the WMCCC there was not too few rounds, as you knew... Hopefully it won't be repeated...
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