[blind-chess] New Ladder Seeding Proposal
- From: "R Dinger" <rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "chess" <blind-chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:01:14 -0700
Good Morning All,
I am trying to find a workable compromise between Mike's very good "festival
seeding" idea and the desire for a reverse seeding by some others.
I do not want to put the less skilled players in a situation where they appear
to only be there for target practice for the big guns.
I think this list will be more successful if our focus is less on competition
and more on education. Competition is, of course, how you demonstrate
achievement of that education, but competition has its destructive side as well.
That having been said, maybe the rules as stated already cover what to do:
Anyone that signs up for the ladder tournament prior to say Wednesday April 28
will be seeded in reverse order of their current Elo rating. Anyone signing up
after the tournament starts will be added to the bottom of the ladder as their
emails arrive.
Will this work for everyone?
Keep those ideas coming, they all have merit.
Richard
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