[MorK]

Hi!
I'd like to ask, why the "Swiss"-Tournament is called "Swiss"-Tournament, although it isn't a real "Swiss"-Tournament:
One of the main requirements for a real "Swiss"-Tournament is, that you never play against the same opponent as in any round before. But in the Swiss-Tournaments on BBO you do.
I agree that you, as you do in the swiss-tournament, play against opps, who are approximately as strong as you, but you play against them another time, if they stay approximately as strong as you are. That's not a kind of Swiss-System, but Danish system.
That's why I'm often asked as TD, if it's right to play against the same opps, especially when they already play against the same opps in the 2nd round (I usually play with 10-20 tables). At the end of the tournament, 8 Rounds, some players come and ask how it can be possible to play against the same opps, and not only 2 times but 3 times in a swiss tournament. Tought by them, that Swiss-System means not to play against the same opps, i have only to say it's bbo and I cannot change it

So I'd like to publish and denunciate that the Swiss-System is not a Swiss-System but Danish system and the denotation "Swiss" is only misleading.
So why did you call it like that?

Sincerely Yours,
Felix Zimmermann.

[uday]

By the time I discovered the diff. between Swiss & Danish, too much time had passed

[Walddk]

uday, on Feb 28 2007, 12:42 AM, said:

By the time I discovered the diff. between Swiss & Danish, too much time had passed

The flags are also almost identical, the difference being that the Swiss ran out of white paint

Roland

[mycroft]

Roland, to be fair, they also ran out of either red paint or canvas...