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**MOZ** · 06-14-2011, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by antichrist

Originally Posted by another poster on chesschat
"I think it is also about cost benefit analysis. Trent, and others would rather play in events where they feel they are playing people of similar ability..."

It is one of the oddities of the sport that throws players of all standards into the same tournament in the same division, or at least only divides them minimally.

I can think of no other sport that does this.

AC

Players choose to enter tournaments where 'seek competitiveness' is a criterion for GO or NO GO.
The above quote indicates the reservations felt by the lowest seeds in an all-in Swiss. Long term readers of this thread and its antecedent on chesschat have patiently watched as we have developed a metric that measures the over-all competitveness of a particular round.

But of course there is another way of examining whether a particular tournament was competitive' for individual players.

For example, over the long weekend, a 7 round all-in Swiss had a top seed rated at 2335 (ACF). He tied for 3rd place overall on 5.5/7, and met not one of the top 14 players. In fact he played seeds 43, 22, 41, 33, 23, 19, 15.

I leave you to judge if this was the competitive field sought by the entrant.

06-14-2011, 08:56 PM	#73 (permalink)
MOZ Volunteer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ozchess is the marginalised cyber-spot where cc-Mods choose to engage with cc-banned posters. Posts: 3,541	Originally Posted by antichrist Originally Posted by another poster on chesschat "I think it is also about cost benefit analysis. Trent, and others would rather play in events where they feel they are playing people of similar ability..." It is one of the oddities of the sport that throws players of all standards into the same tournament in the same division, or at least only divides them minimally. I can think of no other sport that does this. AC Players choose to enter tournaments where 'seek competitiveness' is a criterion for GO or NO GO. The above quote indicates the reservations felt by the lowest seeds in an all-in Swiss. Long term readers of this thread and its antecedent on chesschat have patiently watched as we have developed a metric that measures the over-all competitveness of a particular round. But of course there is another way of examining whether a particular tournament was competitive' for individual players. For example, over the long weekend, a 7 round all-in Swiss had a top seed rated at 2335 (ACF). He tied for 3rd place overall on 5.5/7, and met not one of the top 14 players. In fact he played seeds 43, 22, 41, 33, 23, 19, 15. I leave you to judge if this was the competitive field sought by the entrant. __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.