From: Christophe WEIMANN AOL COM> Date: 2 apr 2003 Subject: Re: Results of the French Open --part1_de.36a56eb5.2bbc86a6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is an inconvenience of this pairing system : people are paired according to their performance and not according to their points (wins). As a result, the final ranking of the tournament is not based on the points. You can have 4 wins and be ranked lower than people with only 2 wins. That seems strange, but... For the pairings by themselves, it seems to be a rather good system, as it seems to avoid games between people with a large difference of ELO. Such games are more common in the usual swiss systems, mainly for people who are in the middle of the table. Of course these comments are based on the french open only. Maybe this system could be experienced somewhere else to see if the conclusions are the same. Christophe --part1_de.36a56eb5.2bbc86a6_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable There is an inconvenience of this pairing system : peo= ple are paired according to their performance and not according to their poi= nts (wins).
As a result, the final ranking of the tournament is not based on the points.= You can have 4 wins and be ranked lower than people with only 2 wins.

That seems strange, but...

For the pairings by themselves, it seems to be a rather good system, as it s= eems to avoid games between people with a large difference of ELO. Such game= s are more common in the usual swiss systems, mainly for people who are in t= he middle of the table.

Of course these comments are based on the french open only. Maybe this syste= m could be experienced somewhere else to see if the conclusions are the same= .

Christophe  

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