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Subject: Re: The swiss system is unfair for Junior

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 02:51:40 06/21/99

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On June 19, 1999 at 16:32:41, blass uri wrote:

>Junior 4.5 out of 7 is better than cilkchess 5 out of 7 because Junior played
>against better oponnents.

If you want to win a tournament you must (be able to) beat all of your
opponents.
It is right that in a 7 round tournament each game is very important. 9 or even
11 rounds qould equalize this effect.

>Uri

However I am not surprised that there are people not bearing that their
favourite program has not become world champion and start to complain about the
kind of tournament.




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