From: DANERUD MARTIN TELIA COM> Date: 27 sep 2001 Subject: SV: Pairing program Dear all, The Swedish Shogi Championship tournament 2001 in Goteborg used the latest version of Swiss Perfect, which enables turning off the pairing taking colours into consideration. It can be downloaded in a 30 days free evaluation version at: http://www.swissperfect.com/ We will use that version at Goteborg Open in November as well. It worked very well in Goteborg in April. We had a fair and quick pairing which was not questioned by anyone. We prefer to use this type of pairing now, when a majority of our participants have an ELO rating. In the early history of Swedish shogi tournaments, when only a few players had an established playing strength, we used Monrad pairing. Most important of all, I think, is that a transparent pairing system is used that can be explained to everyone. Homemade pairings biased by the opinions of the arbiter (and some of the participants!), I hope that we will never see in future shogi tournaments. Sincerely yours, Martin Danerud, President of the Swedish Shogi Federation >On 01/09/26 at 22:44 +0200, Nilsson, Carl Johan wrote: > >>Pairings >>----------- >>Swiss (Nordic) system will be used for pairing. Pairings will be >>made with computerprogram supported by FIDE. This will enssure >>quickness and fairness in the pairings. >> >Most chess pairings programs take the black and white balance into >account, i.e., they try to pair players such that they will have >played equal numbers of games with black and white. Since Shogi >tournaments typically employ furigoma and don't keep track of who had >black, using a standard Chess pairings program introduces an >undesirable element of randomness into the pairing. Does anybody know >of a high-quality pairings program (e.g., endorsed by FIDE) that >allows one to disregard the black/white balance? > >Thanks, > >Pieter