[bobjan]

I've found info on some bridge tournaments saying that the competition format will be "Danish system" .
What does that mean ?
I understand that it differs from Swiss competition slightly, but I'd like detailed info.
Where can I find full description of the system?
Thanks.

[FrancesHinden]

In England, at least, a 'Danish' Swiss is like a normal Swiss, but you are allowed to play the same opponents more than once. The canonical version is that you are allowed to play the same opponents again only once and only in the last round.

The idea is that, if you have played all but one of the matches and the scores are something like

Team A...............130 VPs
Team B...............129 VPs
Team C...............100 VPs
Team D...............99 VPs

etc

then the best way to determine the winner is for Team A to play Team B, even if they have played each other before.

[NickRW]

Slightly off topic, but still on the same general subject, has anyone (other than Gerben) used this method running a Swiss tournament:

http://www.geocities...lo/indexen.html

Possibly not as good as usual Swiss for determining *the* winner - but heaps better at coming up with a rough ranking of the teams overall.

Nick

[Walddk]

This movement was devised by the Danish engineer K.D. Monrad and initially introduced in chess tournaments, first time for the FIDE Olympics in 1928. Since then it has been used in a variety of sports when the schedule does not allow a complete round-robin.

In Denmark it is plainly known as "Monrad", in Sweden "Gröna Hissen" (The Green Elevator) and in most other places just "Danish".

As far as I know, the term "Danish" is also used for "pastry" in English speaking countries. I can assure you that the pastry they produce in those countries, and which they name "Danish", has little to do with the real thing you get at the baker's in Denmark. Curiously, "pastry" is named "wienerbrød" (bread from Vienna) in our country.

Roland

[NickRW]

Walddk, on Sep 30 2008, 06:30 AM, said:

As far as I know, the term "Danish" is also used for "pastry" in English speaking countries. I can assure you that the pastry they produce in those countries, and which they name "Danish", has little to do with the real thing you get at the baker's in Denmark. Curiously, "pastry" is named "wienerbrød" (bread from Vienna) in our country.

Roland

/off topic

Yeah and "Vienna" is actually Wien. English speakers are notorious for misnaming and/or mispelling and/or mispronouncing things. I formally apologise on behalf of all English speakers everywhere.

Mind you, when I go to Austria, my surname (Warren) becomes something like Varen and words like "jeep" come out sounding like "cheap" - so we're not the only ones. But to be fair to the Austrians, I have been there quite a lot of times - long enough to pick up on a few things like that - and only spent 48 hours in Denmark - so I didn't stay there long enough to hear whether you guys are weird too

/end off topic

Nick