J.D. Walker wrote:
Mike Murray wrote:
"J.D. Walker" wrote:
How would the following work out?

White win = +1
Black win = +1.11
White draw = .45
Black Draw = .50

[...] How do you think this would impact Swiss pairings?

The idea seems to need more thought for competitions where the
number of Whites versus Blacks are unevenly distributed. I am going
to bow out of that aspect of the discussion, as I know little about
Swiss system pairings. Even so, it looks good for matches,
all-play-all round robin events, and knock-out mini-match
tournaments provided they give equal access to White and Black.

You'd need to restrict to round-robins with an odd number of players
-- with an even number, everybody plays an odd number of games.


Dave.

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