bobjan Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 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 VPsTeam B...............129 VPsTeam C...............100 VPsTeam 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickRW Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 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.com/gerben47/zermelo/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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walddk Posted September 30, 2008 Report Share Posted September 30, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickRW Posted September 30, 2008 Report Share Posted September 30, 2008 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 :P /end off topic Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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