Or making it, depending on his perspective
Chess.com Isle Of Man Tournament 20 to 28 October 2018
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Those in FIDE who discuss these things have found some jargon. The key words are "pairing allocated bye (PAB)". They've discussed various solutions, one of which is effectively the "float the median" approach advocated by the CAA. That can have the possible disadvantage that the free point in the first round can help win the tournament. That's not going to happen in the Isle of Man, but I've seen it in an English open that the median player was able to finish equal first.David Robertson wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:13 pmit's an absurdity that, because the lowest-rated player is given a 1st round full-point bye, he now gets paired in the top half of the draw for the next several rounds, effectively wrecking his tournament
Another solution, being the one they adopted in the Euro Clubs just finished is that the PAB is only worth a half point.
The bigger problem with the FIDE pairing rules as applied to tournaments of lower status than Opens is that it disadvantages players without ratings, particularly those at the end of the alphabet. They get more byes than "chance" would allocate to them.
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Re: Chess.com Isle Of Man Tournament 20 to 28 October 2018
I've seen lots of crazy things in English tournaments, including a player winning a tournament when he was eligible for the section two sections below.
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Re: Chess.com Isle Of Man Tournament 20 to 28 October 2018
Penalising a player through no fault of their own can't be right.Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 11:09 pmAnother solution, being the one they adopted in the Euro Clubs just finished is that the PAB is only worth a half point.
It also doesn't seem fair that a player getting the bye only gets half a point while someone getting a walkover, presumably, gets one point.
What do you do for someone who gets a bye through arbiter error? A few years ago I got the bye in the first round of a tournament because the arbiter mistakenly paired me against someone who had chosen to take a half-point bye. As the number 1 seed, being penalised half a point might well have made the difference between winning, and not winning, the tournament.
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Re: Chess.com Isle Of Man Tournament 20 to 28 October 2018
I believe the only reason that this obviously sensible approach has not been accepted is that it has never been satisfactorily coded. I do not suggest that this is a simple task.Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 11:09 pmThey've discussed various solutions, one of which is effectively the "float the median" approach advocated by the CAA.
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I've long thought it was an obvious and straightforward hack. You just introduce into the pairings the "controller's friend" who always has the lowest ranking. Having being paired, the controller's friend finds an urgent appointment with lunch and defaults. If there's an even number of players, the friend declines to be paired.
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Well yes.
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It's the case that for round two, there are quite a number of big names that sit beyond the live boards.IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑Sat Oct 20, 2018 3:29 pmHow often do you see a tournament where a round 1 all-GM clash doesn't get onto the liveboards?
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There was a dispute at the end of the David Howell game around three fold repetition procedure. His opponent didn't follow it correctly and David was incensed. He stopped the clocks and went to the arbiter. His opponent professed he didnt know the rules, to which David responded "you should" & "its cheating".
I didnt understand why he was so angry when a 3-fold repetition had taken place?
I didnt understand why he was so angry when a 3-fold repetition had taken place?
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But had it?Nick Burrows wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:55 amThere was a dispute at the end of the David Howell game around three fold repetition procedure. His opponent didn't follow it correctly and David was incensed. He stopped the clocks and went to the arbiter. His opponent professed he didnt know the rules, to which David responded "you should" & "its cheating".
I didnt understand why he was so angry when a 3-fold repetition had taken place?
See http://chess-results.com/partieSuche.as ... 85685&rd=2. The gane score given there may not be accurate, but if it is it looks like a totally phoney claim.
It would still constitute a draw offer, which David presumably accepted.
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Something doesn't look right about this story. Perhaps the game actually went on longer than shown.David Sedgwick wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:57 amThe game score given there may not be accurate, but if it is it looks like a totally phoney claim.
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I think it occurred after the move 40..Rb2. The weird thing is the players didn't return to the hall in the next 30-40 mins, so where did the remaining moves take place?
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Ah, thanks. It looks as though White missed an opportunity to make a valid claim on move 38, but there was nothing on move 40.
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It may well have been on move 38, but that he made the claim incorrectly so the game went on...somewhere?
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Re: Chess.com Isle Of Man Tournament 20 to 28 October 2018
They were in the playing hall when I finished at about 8:30. My game wasn't too far away I didn't pick up on anything unusual going on.