From: Douglas Dysart <shogi <at> CHESSMANIA <dot> COM>
Date: 3 apr 2001
Subject: Re: The Answer

The Dutch/Europe championship format (which I call the "Swiss KO") is my favorite one in the world.  However, I can't say that I played in a serious one before, since for an American the MSO is pure Swiss.  Had I been european, I would have been able to say I've played in a KO and a Swiss at the same time.

Maybe we'll bring it to America someday!

--- Pieter Stouten <stouten <at> SHOGI <dot> NET>
> wrote:
>On 01/04/03 at 9:33 -0700, Douglas Dysart <shogi <at> chessmania <dot> com> wrote:
>
>>the answer to the whole dilemma is simple - combine the two formats!
>>I have mastered the technique used by the Dutch in their championship
>>tournament.
>>
>Although for both the Dutch and the European Shogi Championships, an
>"open" (Swiss) championship is associated with the "closed" (KO)
>championship (in case of the closed ESC, the open counterpart is the
>MSOWSC), both the Dutch and the European Champions are determined by
>a pure KO system. The advantage of combining a KO and a (biased)
>Swiss event is that players that are eliminated during the KO can
>still compete in the open tournament.
>
>Ciao,
>
>Pieter

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