Re: [pbmserv-dev] constraining the game launcher

[Ragnar Wikman IB <rwikman@ra.abo.fi>]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Richard Rognlie wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:51:12 -0400
> From: Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net>
> Reply-To: pbmserv-dev@gamerz.net
> To: pbmserv-dev@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [pbmserv-dev] constraining the game launcher
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:46:20AM +0200, Claude Chaunier wrote:
> > Hi Richard. What code do you use to launch the LoA tournament
> > with the list of players Dave Dyers provides? I'm thinking
> > of adding a few lines to reject choices of colors that were
> > already made last year - we would provide the list of
> > unwanted color combinations.

I'm not 100% sure I understand your intention - do you mean to try
to ensure that if - say - dave and ragnar are drawn into the same
section as last year, the colors should be swapped from last year's
draw?

> The code is pretty simple, it takes the list of players for the pool,
> and flip flops them into the matches...
>
> e.g.   if I were to start a pool with players a b c d e
>
> it would create games....
>
> a-b c-a a-d e-a
> b-c d-b b-e
> c-d e-c
> d-e
>
>       b l a c k
>       a b c d e
> w  a  - X . X .
> h  b  . - X . X
> i  c  X . - X .
> t  d  . X . - X
> e  e  X . X . -

This is indeed the official colour allotment in all chess tournaments, so
I definitely agree THIS scheme should NOT be changed! However, if it is a
common feeling amongst the participants that colors should be reversed, it
could still be done "manually" so if dave was player "a" and I player "b" last
year, this year I could be flipped to "c" for example?!

But personally, I don't think this is a big problem? (Maybe we could try to
do it for the final, if a lot of last year's finalists make it also to this
year's?)

Cheers, Ragnar

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