From: "Nilsson, Carl Johan" <carljohan.nilsson <at> TELIA <dot> COM>
Date: 1 mar 2001
Subject: SV:      Re: Results from Stockholm Open 2001

I think the idea explained below sounds fair.
With the rule used in the tournament, players who not had a perfect score after the first day and who had met any of the dropouts, had almost no chance to end up as the winner. This was the case for lot of players (Palmgren, Bjerke, Kristiansson, Sandbom, Inui, Hosokawa and me).

/Carl Johan Nilsson


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Ämne: Re: Results from Stockholm Open 2001


> > In fact,
> > several
> > tournament organizers strongly encourage players to participate
> > during all rounds out of fairness to their opponents.
> 
> Also for the reason of possible dropouts, western-chess rules often
> provide for "adjusted strength of schedule"--if one of your
> opponents has an unplayed game (forfeit, bye, whatever), you count
> him as having drawn (earned half a point in that round).  You still
> get 0 for your own unplayed games, of course.