Richard Bates wrote:
Alex Holowczak wrote:
The choice of software was basically either Tournament Director or Swiss Master. We concluded that the latter was preferable out of the two, because it did pairings properly. Double rounds are possible with this, but it's a bit of a faff. Hence single rounds. Neither software does double rounds particularly well.
Why do they find it so difficult? Isn't it just single round pairing rules without colours? How can that be a more problematic algorithm?
The software will do pairings for Round 1. At this point you can either enter the result as 1-0, 0-1 or 1/2-1/2. Unless there's a better way of doing it, the only way around this is to manually input the reverse pairings for Round 2, and put the result as 1-0, 0-1 or 1/2-1/2 again. (OK, you may have other variations, but you get the idea.) There's no option to put in 2-0, 1-1, 0-2, 1/2-1 1/2 or 1 1/2-1/2.
If you don't consider that to be a faff - I do - you still have a problem with this solution. If in Round 1 you were white, and Round 2 you were black, then in Round 3 you'd still be paired as if you were a white seeker, even though you're supposed to be colour neutral.
I'm sure it's not a particularly problematic algorithm to code, but it nevertheless isn't coded!
I use Swiss Perfect 98 which allows multiple games per round and so you could enter, for example 1.5 - 0.5 as the result. It therefore does UKCC scores (3/2/1) and is ideal for that at school.
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