From: jc79+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Anthony Chanak)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: ICS Blitz Tourney Results
Date: 13 Sep 92 02:26:01 GMT
Organization: Senior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


The Internet Chess Server on valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu held its first blitz
tournament yesterday (Friday, Sept 11).  A short description of the tourney 
follows:

The swiss system tournament was held between 6:00 and 8:45 EDT, with 5 rounds.
The turnout was impressive-- we were expecting about 15 - 20 people to drop
by and take part.  We were pleasantly surprised when 32 people asked to play.
In fact, more than 32 wanted to join, but, due to time constraints and lack
of materials, we limited the tourney to 5 rounds and enforced a maximum of
32 people.

The ratings of those in the tournament varied greatly-- from unrated, 803, to
1936.  (This is ICS Blitz rating, not USCF rating.  USCF ratings are probably
100 - 300 points higher)  

We started to register people for the tournament at about 5:30 directly
on ICS.  At about 6:05, we stopped accepting registration requests, and made
the initial pairings.  The first games started around 6:15.  (15 minutes
late) Once started, we averaged about 30 minutes per round.

During the 10 minutes between rounds, all were treated to a wonderful display
of wit coming from 30 inactive players.  (Some played games between rounds
to pass time, of course)

Once started, the tournament progressed almost without a hitch-- we made one 
pairing mistake, which was fixed in short order.  Good natured competition
seemed to thrive from round to round, and the ending proved to be quite
climatic. 

We really enjoyed running this tournament.  (It was our first time to do this
on ICS!)  Though we want to have more tournaments in the future, we regret 
that we will not be able to hold them at regular intervals, since our
workloads wreak havoc with any notion of consistent scheduling.

* Any suggestions to make things run smoother would be appreciated *

Again, many thanks to those who participated, and thanks for your patience
between rounds.  (p.s. if someone has a *free* pairing generator program,
preferably for unix, with source, it would be much appreciated)

Watch r.g.c. for announcements of future tournaments, as well as the message
of the day on valkyries.

Below are the final standings.  Congratulations to Zon for his most impressive
performance!

John Chanak and Bill Kish
         a.k.a.
   MataPato and router

Results of Sept 11 1992 Valkyries Blitz Chess Tournment:

Round     1  2  3  4  5    Q
----------------------------
Zon       1  1  1  1  1    5
Szach     1  0  1  1  1    4
ekw       1  1  1  1  0    4
Linda     0  1  1  1  1    4
cron      1  1  1  0  1    4
Peter     1  1  0 .5  1  3.5
benoni    1  0  1  0  1    3
pkpk      1  1  0  1  0    3
combo     0  1  1  1  0    3
Gb        1  1  0  1  0    3
Mark      1  0  1  0  1    3
Devil     1  1  0  0  1    3
yfan      0  1  1  0  1    3
Dennis    0  1  1  0  1    3
guppy     1  0  0  1  1    3
jolly     1  0  1 .5  0  2.5
Tim       1 .5  1  0  0  2.5
perlman   1 .5  0  0  1  2.5
legend    0  0  1  1  0    2
wtpooh    0  1  0  1  0    2
JP        0  0  1  1  0    2
Bigfoot   0  1  0  1  0    2
trb       0  0  1  0  1    2
magyar    0  1  0  0  1    2
Gene      0  1  0  0  0    1
Vitroth   0  0  1  0  0    1
todzo     1  0  withdrawn  1
hersco    1  0  withdrawn  1
kj        0  0  0  1  0    1
fink      0  0  0  1  0    1
Capps     0  0  0  0  1    1
Warthog   0  0  0  0  0    0

Sorry, we do not have the pairing information at this time.  (It's all on
paper, not computer)  If enough wish, we will post it as well.
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