Re: [pbmserv-dev] constraining the game launcher

["Claude Chaunier" <claude.chaunier@wanadoo.fr>]

Thank you Richard for your enlightement.

Hi Ragnar:
> 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?

Yes, that's it. However what I'm really concerned about is the
swap of colors between consecutive rounds.

> But personally, I don't think this is a big problem?

I think of it and I admit I don't crave for it either, as far
as last year's draw is concerned. Actually with a year having
passed, much things have happened. So nevermind, I'll leave it
there.

> (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?)

That's more like my initial concern. Above all, the colors
should be swapped between the first round and the second
round. Last year I met koichin with the same colors in the
first round and in the second round. Our first game was
demanding and we felt we needed a change. And we were both
embarrassed for him not to be given a better second chance,
all the more in a crucial game. Now the second game happens
to have been very different and koichin won, but the start
was unenthusiastic.

> This is indeed the official colour allotment in all chess tournaments, so
> I definitely agree THIS scheme should NOT be changed! 

They play so many games before the same tournament turns up
again, I agree nobody may have felt any need to do things
another way. But don't they care about not repeating the same
attribution of colors in consecutive rounds? Or maybe they
never promote more than one player from any first round
section to the same second round section?

> However, if it is a common feeling amongst the participants that
> colors should be reversed, it could still be done "manually"

Yes. And even when there might be as much as four pairs of
colors to get reversed in the second round of our LoA
tournament, it all is easily feasible by hand, because the
four pairs are independent of each others, they don't
intersect. This is no real optimization problem.

> so if dave was player "a" and I player "b" last
> year, this year I could be flipped to "c" for example?!

Or, as far as we are concerned about consecutive rounds -
if dave was already player "a" and I player "b" in the
same section in the first round, then in this second round
I could be flipped to "a" and dave to "b".

Cheers,
Claude (userid:) chaunier