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Other considerations

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 4:03 p.m.

In Response To: Other considerations (Chuck Bower)

Chuck wrote:

There is some incentive to also attract players who are less than the top rank in skill level.

For games that I like playing but know I'm not good at, what I look for at a tournament is the opportunity to play a lot, rather than a format that raises my chances from epsilon to 2*epsilon because there's more luck and less skill involved. I doubt that I'm alone in having this attitude. Most people who participate in chess tournaments know they're not going to win any prizes but they go anyway to have fun playing.

For this reason, my feeling is that the Swiss system will attract lower-ranked players more than an elimination format will, even though there is arguably less luck in a Swiss tournament.

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