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More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks
Posted By: Sam Pottle In Response To: More swiss tournaments, best in three shorter matches and clocks (Mislav Radica)
Date: Saturday, 11 October 2008, at 11:35 p.m.
In Robertie's World Cup, which is known as tournament which won only by best players, format was best in three 9 pointers. Monte Carlo tournament has one longer matches and there are less great players which won tournaments than weak ones.
The World Cup format was best-of-five 11 point matches. This is obviously a stricter test than a single 15-23 point match. It also takes much longer; the World Cup played one round per day. There are other effects, too -- the World Cup was essentially a $5000 jackpot. Both the single-elimination format and the entry fee tended to discourage weaker players from entering.
The first World Cup (1988) had very long single matches (final match: 41 points!). The players found it boring and rather un-match-like.
The best-of-n thing can be overdone, of course. I don't think anyone's seriously proposing using best-of-n 1 point matches for any kind of normal tournament. You want the matches to be long enough that you can get those juicy lopsided matchscore considerations (when should you redouble while trailing -10:-3?). The sweet spot seems to be in the 9-13 point range.
My sense is that a best-of-n match has somewhat more variance in how long it takes to play than the equivalent length single match does, which would be bad for scheduling purposes. I'm not sure about this, though.
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