Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:34:49 11/24/99
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On November 24, 1999 at 20:28:13, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On November 24, 1999 at 19:04:52, Dann Corbit wrote: [snip] >>It might be interesting to do a round robin, then a swiss of the top ten. > >Is that your English going south? :) > >Usually, it's the swiss that's done with the big field, and the round-robin with >the small one (e.g. the contestants that succeeded in the swiss.) Maybe that's how they do it, but it assumes that you know a seeding to start with. With chess games, I think it is a bad assumption since the programs get changed all the time. How can you seed a swiss tournament when you don't have any idea what the relative strengths are? So play a round-robin tournament (two games at each board) to calculate the seeding, then play a swiss tournament. IOW, I think (if they play swiss then round-robin) they are doing it exactly backwards from the way that they should be.
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