In message <[email protected]>, Ingo Althöfer
<[email protected]> writes
Hi Nick,
thanks for the information.
>KGS seems to use a sub-optimal pairing program: ...
>There are 12 participants.
>How can you pit, in a CH-system, four of the five
>strongest against each other in the very first round?
It does not use any knowledge of the players' strengths.
And if it did, it would _prefer_ to pair the stronger players against
each other, so as to obtain more information.
That might be good for sparring tournaments.
However, in "title tournaments" a normal pairing
scheme should be used, to get highest chances
that the best participant wins.
A normal scheme for such a goal would
be to pair the upper half of the participants
against the lower half in the first round.
There are reasons for doing a pairing such as you describe. But I don't
believe that "highest chances that the best participant wins" is one of
them. Indeed, if that is your objective, such a pairing is pessimal.
Nick
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