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Posted By: Daniel Murphy In Response To: Huh... (neilkaz)
Date: Friday, 29 October 2010, at 8:37 p.m.
Thanks for the interesting details. They confirm my belief that it should not be the Doubles competition TD's job to care who your partner is, how much better or worse your partner is, how much s/he helps or hurts your partnership, or how much and when your partnership makes decisions jointly. "Your" meaning "anyone's."
Alternatively, I could see a rule requiring that the lesser partner meet some standard, like playing in the championship flight, or the advanced flight, or the beginner flight -- whatever. But since there's no requirement (and no, I think, feasible way to implement such a requirement) that a lesser partner make any contribution to the team, what would that accomplish?
Alternatively, there was a suggestion that "a real double competition" means requiring teammates to switch off every other move. I think that'd be "a" way to play but not the only "real" way. Personally I'd prefer a competition that leaves it up to the teams to decide how they want to play.
Alternatively, I could see a competition in "Danish Doubles" style, which isn't actually doubles -- the partners don't play together but play individual matches against other teams. But that only works as a Swiss tournament or, in a cup tournament, with tiebreakers, and neither format would be easy to fit into a tournament schedule.
Re 4), that's a good example, I think, of the sort of position where two strong players teamed together might go wrong. One might prefer Strategy A, and the other Strategy B. One strategy might be better than the other, but either strategy might be okay, if the partnership goes with one or other -- but not if one move follows "A" and the next move follows "B".
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