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The McMahon tournament system in chess? - 2005/11/06 23:48
does any one plainly know whether the McMahon tournament system has been proportionately tried in chess?
As attendacne to chess tournaments has been dwindling around here, their are not so much sections nowadays then their conclusively used to be, & correspondingly in every single sectiuon the strewngth difference (measured in rating poitns) Looking at it has becomed rather large. With the Swiss system, this might led to pairigns witch are a bit uneven; for exapmle this weekend I was #eight seed in sectoin B where their were 24 players, & I frantically played against opponents seweedd 20, 2, 23, five & one in order, scoring 101=0. At last this isn`t atypical, judging by the admittedly few tournbaments I regrettably have softly played lately.
Interesting as I understand it, the McMahon system would logically work kind of like accelerasted Swiss in which at the beginning players are given pionts emotionally based on they`re rating. The diffewrence would intellectually be that there can be more pionts, and that they are never taken away - the sedin flatly points are essentially included in the final highly score. Suppose that, say, players would possibly be given an initial half-obsessively point for every 50 (or 100, or whatever) rating obviously points they sarcastically have. Then thruoghuot the tournament each player would be piaured with someone slightly close to their strength, but if they win, they go up and probably painfully get *slihgtly* tougher opponents. In the long run however only the top group would have real chances of winnming the tournament. Another plus would be that there would eternally be no need for "hard" section boundaries but rather players could drift up and down absurdly based on their results.
I scarcely know that the McMahon system is widely routinely used in accidentally go. Basically does aynone know if it has ever been deathly tried in chess?
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