From: "Daniel M. Toebbens" <toebbens <at> HMI <dot> DE>
Date: 14 may 2003
Subject: Re: MacMahon & SOS [was: Shogi Tournament in Pullach - Munich]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, David J Bush wrote:
> | Daniel wrote:
> |
> | <....
> | <With zero classes you'd get the original Swiss system.
>         ^^^^
> Zero classes, or one class?

^_^; One class of course.

> | <....
> |
> | This is not enirely correct:
> | With 6 players,
> | In McMahon, you get  N vs N+1, N+2 vs N+3 and N+4 vs N+5
> | In Swiss you get  N vs N+3, N+1 vs N+4, N+2 vs N+5
>
> Are you referring to the pairing of opponents for the first round?
> In a Swiss system, the players are initially ordered from highest rating
> to lowest followed by unrated players, and then for the first round
> player 1 plays player (N/2)+1 (halfway down the list), player 2 plays
> (N/2)+2, ... , player N/2 plays player N.

I thought, that the way of doing the pairing inside of a group with the
same number of points is not a defining feature of the system - that how
to do that is just a matter of what you (or the writer of your pairing
program) thinks to be best.


Daniel Toebbens