Round 2 pairings

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Round 2 pairings

I see that the round is starting an hour late. Was it something to do with people not showing up at time?

The organizer must be forfeited :D They are late more than a sec :D

[Tyler Longo]

Re: Round 2 pairings

I see that the round is starting an hour late. Was it something to do with people not showing up at time?

That rule is going to cause many, many problems.

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Round 2 pairings

Round 2 has been postponed!

Instead of starting at 15.00 CET (that's 6 am Pacific Time), the start of the round was
delayed an hour. According to chessdom.com , this was due to changes in the composition of the Philippines (wasn't it peculiar yesterday that their lowest-rated player Villamayor was on top board?

That's a decent strategy in match play. Slot your weakest player on board 1 and only use him against teams where you expect to lose. When you play him you move your stronger players down one board to face weaker opponents than they would normally play and hope the weak player on board 1 can maybe draw.

Sounds like the team captain is one smart cookie!

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Round 2 pairings

Round 2 has been postponed!

Instead of starting at 15.00 CET (that's 6 am Pacific Time), the start of the round was
delayed an hour. According to chessdom.com , this was due to changes in the composition of the Philippines (wasn't it peculiar yesterday that their lowest-rated player Villamayor was on top board? But from what I see at chessdom, the only issue is one equivalent to "who plays today?" Why would that occasion a round postponement?) and Nigeria.

You can find the delay confirmed at the pairings page:

http://chess-results.info/tnr16315.a...N&flag=30&m=-1

Does anybody remember an Olympiad round being delayed for this reason?

Super ironic of course that the organization insisted that board composition and order had to be determined months in advance and was not allowed to change. Previously,the inviolate nature of team compositions was a joke, an open fiction, with huge changes being made the night before the first round, but I don't remember a round being delayed because of this question.

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Round 2 pairings

Bob,

It's Accelerated Pairings, as you might have noticed from the first round.

Pairings here:

http://chess-results.info/tnr16315.a...N&flag=30&m=-1

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Round 2 pairings

Not ideal pairings on women's boards 13-15. Teams from the bottom half which won in the first round play each other. Some of them are still going to have perfect scores for the third round, leading to uneven pairings. A variation would be to pair (some of) the top half teams which drew in the first round (you'll find them on boards 38-41) against those second half teams. But you have to go with the rules you announced. Another variation, going back to the first round: make the top half a bit larger than the bottom half, so that after the drawn matches in the top half, the number of top half losers = the number of bottom half winners. This second approach is a gamble, because you don't know how many top half matches will be drawn, nor do you know that there won't be any draws in the bottom half.

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Round 2 pairings

Hi Jonathan:

What kind of pairing system are they using? Both Bolivia and Costa Rica have 2 match points, and each Canadian team has 0 match points. How do we end up paired up??

Bob

[Jonathan Berry]

Open

Canada - Bolivia;

Women

Canada - Costa Rica.

Andale!, Canada.