weejonnie Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 I am not sure where this should go - but since it involves Direction, this seems as good a place as anywhere. When you play swiss teams/ pairs, it seems pretty standard for there to be 7-boards a round (so you play 4 rounds). Is there a good reason for doing so since, unless you share boards between two tables or put 7 boards on each table, you would get a funny 2-board movements. 12: 34: 56: 71: 23: 45: 67 da capo - meaning everyone plays 3 sets of 2 + one out of the last two boards. As a newbie to running Swiss events, could someone explain the correct way how these boards are handled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WellSpyder Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 I'm not aware of anyone having difficulties with an arrangement of boards as you suggest. People don't necessarily expect to start playing each match from the lowest-numbered board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 I am not sure where this should go - but since it involves Direction, this seems as good a place as anywhere. When you play swiss teams/ pairs, it seems pretty standard for there to be 7-boards a round (so you play 4 rounds). Is there a good reason for doing so since, unless you share boards between two tables or put 7 boards on each table, you would get a funny 2-board movements. 12: 34: 56: 71: 23: 45: 67 da capo - meaning everyone plays 3 sets of 2 + one out of the last two boards. As a newbie to running Swiss events, could someone explain the correct way how these boards are handled?I'm not at all clear what is being asked here. 7-board rounds may be common in EBU events, for historical masterpoint reasons, but I wouldn't expect them to be used in a single-session event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Around here, club Swiss Team games are usually 4 rounds of 6 boards, not 7. This is consistent with our pair games usually being 24 boards (8 rounds of 3). At tournaments it's usually 8 rounds of 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weejonnie Posted July 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 As long as no one has a problem with only playing 1 board on the last round then that's fine by me - just wondering if I was missing something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted July 11, 2017 Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 As long as no one has a problem with only playing 1 board on the last round then that's fine by me - just wondering if I was missing something. I wish I understood what you are saying here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahydra Posted July 11, 2017 Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 Perhaps the answer to the OP's confusion is that the boards move continuously, rather than playing both boards and only then passing them to the next table? ahydra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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