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From: roy@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy Mongiovi)
Newsgroups: net.games.chess
Subject: Swiss System Experience.
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 22:02:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 22:02:01 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jan-86 04:42:45 EST
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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Just this weekend I played in my first tournament in 10 years: the
1986 Atlanta Winter Congress.  There were 63 or so players there,
ranging from unrated to 2583.  My rating was a very rusty 1620.

In round 1 I was black against a 2250 rated player and lost.
In round 2 I was white against an unrated player and won.
In round 3 I was black against the 2530 player (bad first game) and lost.
In round 4 I was white against a 1288 rated player and won.
In round 5 I was black against a 1901 rated player and lost.

I feel sort of cheated because I didn't find out a thing about my current
rating (at least as far as I can tell).  It's greater than 1300 and less
than 1900.  Gee, I knew that before the tournament.

It this sort of thing typical of the Swiss system, or did I just "luck" out?
Is this why everyone hates the Swiss?
									Roy
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