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re:USCF/FIDE tournaments - 2007/01/08 17:24
Dear Mr. Seefeldt,
Heil Dubya!
You appear to suffer under certain misaprehensions and I hope you will not think my responses to your questions are condescending.
Firstly, technically, one should not differentiate between "FIDE countries" and the USCF. FIDE is a federation of national federations. Thus, the USCF is a member federation of FIDE, just as Chess South Africa (CHESSA) is a member federation of FIDE. I mention Chess South Africa only because it's headquarters is about 13,000 kilometers away from the USCF headquarters and because I am a Life Member of each.
[I admit that CHESSA -- as almost all other countries -- tries to adhere to the
FIDE Handbook, while the USCF tends to ignore the FIDE Handbook, but our national arrogance does not mean that there are FIDE countries AND the USCF.
It does mean, however, that CHESSA tournaments are played strictly in accordance with the (FIDE) Laws of Chess, while USCF tournaments are conducted in accordance with a monstrosity called something like "the USCF Tournament
Regulations". Fundamentally, the Laws of Chess are intended to make chess play a fair and pleasurable experience for chess players, while "the USCF Tournament
Regulations" are intended to make chess play a profitable and easy experience for bigtime organizers of tournaments, especially organizers of very aptly named "Frankenswisses".]
ANYONE can play in a FIDE tournament. At present, the lowest published rating of FIDE is 1800. This means that a person who does not achieve an ELO performance rating of 1800 over nine or more games is not listed as rated. I understand that the future holds a minimum of 1000 for FIDE published ratings.
Round robins are played all over the world, as are Swiss systems. (The last two tournaments I conducted overseas were Swiss systems: The Bled Olympiad -- a team tournament, at which I was ONE of dozens of arbiters -- and the Trinidad and Tobago Chess Foundation's National Scholastic Open -- an individual tournament, run in two sections.)
The most important "pros" of a round robin are that everone plays everyone else and that one almost always arrives at a sole winner. I can't think of a serious "con", except that a large round robin may take up more time than may be available to the players and organizers. The most important "pro" of a
Swiss system is that a winner may be determined for a large number of players in a small number of rounds. The most important "con" is that people tend to take the results -- especially the "tie breakers" -- too seriously.
Heute Uhmuhrikkka, Afghanistan und Irak. Morgen die ganze Welt!
Uhmuhrikkka, Uhmuhrikkka über Alles!
(The more information that comes out about the attacks on the Twin Towers and
organized by the rulers of the United States and were intended to have the same effect on the people of the United States that the Reichstag fire had on the people of Germany in 1933.)
Jerome Bibuld
Heute Uhmuhrikkka, Afghanistan und Irak. Morgen die ganze Welt!
Uhmuhrikkka, Uhmuhrikkka über Alles!
(The more information that comes out about the attacks on the Twin Towers and
organized by the rulers of the United States and were intended to have the same effect on the people of the United States that the Reichstag fire had on the people of Germany in 1933.)
Jerome Bibuld gens una sumus.
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