[blind-chess] Ladder tournaments Re: Tournament definitions
- From: "R Dinger" <rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:17:56 -0700
Hi Mike and Alvin,
OK, I googled ladder tournament and can tell you the following:
Players are arranged in a "ladder" initially by rating or some such.
Any player can challenge anyone one or two places above their current ranking.
If the challenger wins, he moves above the vanquished player. Otherwise nobody
changes places.
Eventually, the ladder sorts itself out into a natural ranking.
A ladder tournament is on-going and really never ends.
I really like this idea, but I need to work out some details like what if you
are challenged by someone and are too busy with other games to play--how long
can people stall?
When new players join the list, where do they go--at the bottom or
approximately where they belong?
I can easily incorporate this into my TD software and report tournament
standings every couple of weeks.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: alvin blazik
To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:11 AM
Subject: [blind-chess] Tournament definitions
OK Richard,
One more, Mike G is talking about a ladder tournament. What is that?
----- Original Message -----
From: R Dinger
To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:45 AM
Subject: [blind-chess] Re: Tournaments? was: Friendly game list
Hi Alvin,
In a double round robin, you play each opponent twice--once as White and once
as Black.
In a single round robin, you play each opponent once and an attempt is made
to "roughly" balance the number of times each player plays each color.
In a Swiss style tournament, a list of players is sorted by rating and those
in the top half play those in the bottom half. In the next round the winners
of the previous round's games are arranged by rating and the top half plays the
bottom half. The same thing is done with the losers in the previous round.
This continues until one clear winner emerges. If the number of players is not
a power of two some may have a bye in some rounds. The Swiss style tournament
can quickly find the best player in a group. Four rounds will determine the
winner for a group of 16 players or less. The Swiss style is often used in
weekend tournaments.
Another type of tournament is a single elimination (or some variation), where
you play until you lose. That is fine for the winner, but if you lose early,
you don't get to play much.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: alvin blazik
To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:12 AM
Subject: [blind-chess] Re: Tournaments? was: Friendly game list
Hi Richard,
What is the difference between Round Robin and Swiss Tournament play?
Alvin
-- Original Message -----
From: R Dinger
To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:57 AM
Subject: [blind-chess] Tournaments? was: Friendly game list
In addition to friendly games, is there any interest in holding
tournaments? I'm not sure we have enough players yet, but this is something to
consider for the future. If there is any interest, what sort of tournaments do
you want:
* Round Robin
* Swiss
* Theme (everybody uses same opening moves)
* Team (organized regionally?)
* Other
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris C.
To: blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 2:19 PM
Subject: [blind-chess] Friendly game list
Hi Rod, Richard, and all.
Is there going to be a list put together of everyone on the list and
their email addresses so we can look and request a friendly game from list
members?
Just curious...
Chris Chaffin
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