From: Jochen Drechsler WEB DE> Date: 3 apr 2003 Subject: Re: Results of the French Open 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... >>>I do not think so! The final ranking just shows how well you performed. That is correct if the pairing was done according to the performance. 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. >>>Indeed!! Regards, Jochum. ______________________________________________________________________________ Wenn POP fur Sie mehr als nur Musik ist. Senden Sie Ihre SMS direkt aus Outlook oder Netscape! http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021177