roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy Mongiovi) (01/15/86)
Just this weekend I played in my first tournament in 10 years: the
1986 Atlanta Winter Congress. There were 63 or so players there,
ranging from unrated to 2583. My rating was a very rusty 1620.
In round 1 I was black against a 2250 rated player and lost.
In round 2 I was white against an unrated player and won.
In round 3 I was black against the 2530 player (bad first game) and lost.
In round 4 I was white against a 1288 rated player and won.
In round 5 I was black against a 1901 rated player and lost.
I feel sort of cheated because I didn't find out a thing about my current
rating (at least as far as I can tell). It's greater than 1300 and less
than 1900. Gee, I knew that before the tournament.
It this sort of thing typical of the Swiss system, or did I just "luck" out?
Is this why everyone hates the Swiss?
Roy
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Roy J. Mongiovi. Office of Computing Services. User Services.
Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta GA 30332. (404) 894-6163
...!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!royaouriri@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri) (01/16/86)
> I feel sort of cheated because I didn't find out a thing about my current > rating (at least as far as I can tell). It's greater than 1300 and less > than 1900. Gee, I knew that before the tournament. > > Is this sort of thing typical of the Swiss system, or did I just "luck" out? > Is this why everyone hates the Swiss? > Roy > -- You can compute your new rating after the tournament, and find out your current rating. So, playing a swiss tournament tells you much more about your current strength relatively to the other players. Besides, I think an Open Swiss tournament is the only place where a rusty rated player (1600) have a chance to play National, International or Grand chess Masters. Since the surest way to improve in chess is to play stronger opponents, I think the Swiss system is a very good school of chess for low and medium rated players (up to 2200). For this very reason, it is not very liked by higher rated players, because that's where they run the highest risk of being upset by a lower rated pawn-pusher. Few years ago, when I was a 1650 rated chess player, I played a crazy swiss tournament : I won against a 2430, and draw a 2250, but lost against a 1970 and an unrated player!! ______________ Chedley Aouriri, ITT-ATC, Shelton,CT. ....ittatc!ittvax!aouriri