Alex Holowczak wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 7:32 am
Richard Bates wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:18 am
From London Classic regulations...
“If a tournament permits two Half Point Byes, then a player will score 0 if the second Half Point Bye request is in the last round, or if both the Half Point Byes are requested in the last two rounds.”
Can anyone make any sense of this, coz I can’t!
The schedule for the last 4 rounds of the FIDE Open is 4.30pm, 10am, 4.30pm, 10am...
Have you thought to email/ask the Organiser when you see him later? After all, he wrote them so maybe he'll know?
I think that would give me an unfair advantage. I would prefer the explanation to be instantly and equally available to all.
On a basic point, the second specified scenario is a subset of the first so is redundant. Unless requesting half point byes in both the last 2 rounds results in zero in both (which doesn’t make sense as byes can be requested directly before the previous round is completed).
It also implies that a half point bye can be received in the last round, if it is the first one. Which would be, unusual. But if that's what's intended, fair enough.
Of course there maybe something elsewhere in the regulations that i’m overlooking.
I'm convinced that all posts on this forum instantly register in "the organisers" inbox anyway
Or it could be considered part of a long running series trying to highlight the importance of clear drafting of regulations. If this regulation is clear to all except myself, then i apologise profusely!