From: USPIF::JTSOARES     "Julio A.N.T. Soares" 27-NOV-1995 19:58:10.50
Date: 28 nov 1995
Subject: iss tournament

From: USPIF::JTSOARES     "Julio A.N.T. Soares" 27-NOV-1995 19:58:10.50
To:     MX%"ewwa <at> chattanooga <dot> net"
CC:     JTSOARES
Subj:   RE: Setup of the shogi tournament

ewwa <at> chattanooga <dot> net wrote:
>
>The problem with running the tournament as a MacMahon is that it would be
>very hard to set up ranks appropriately.  Standards vary widely from one
>country to another, and Panvest only gets around that by requiring its
>players to have * ratings on IGS (which I doubt are common in the shogi
>group).  Knockout (also called the cup system) is indeed the one where each
>game's loser is eliminated.  I would suggest either double-knockout (which
>is like the cup system, except that a player must lose 2 games to be
>eliminated) or Swiss (like MacMahon, except that all players begin on an
>equal footing).

YES!, was the Swiss system that I really had in mind! Thanks!

Cheers,
Julio.