Tournament of Lepers, Week 1

OK! Pairings are out! Please note there are nine rounds, so everyone will have an unbalanced number of times playing Black and White. I checked the ratings of all participants Sunday night, and gave the players in the lower half 5 Whites.

I stole how to do a round-robin from the Tournament Director for Windows site—figuring out how to get everyone with the correct number of Whites and Blacks is not trivial.

Here is a list of players with their FICS standard ratings. Exceptions: chessloser, since he only played one standard game (used blitz), and Polly with none (used USCF).

10: kevingafni (drunknknite)        1898
9:  NoTB (Tacticus Maximus)         1834
8:  ppwchess (Polly)                1700
7:  RockyRook (Rocky Rook)          1682
6:  LiquidEggProduct (Donnie)       1678
5:  RLP (Wahrheit)                  1671
4:  TheDarkKnightTwo (l3rucewayne)  1593
3:  Rhuiden (Tom)                   1530
2:  gorckat (gorckat)               1465
1:  mandalorian (chessloser)        1337

I only have a rough idea of your playing strengths, so this may or may not be an accurate reflection of ability, except I’m pretty sure Glenn and Kevin are the strongest (Vegas put each of them at 4:1 odds.

Note the number before your name, because that’s who you are in the following graph (the first player listed gets White):

Week 1 1:10 2:9 3:8 4:7 5:6
Week 2 10:6 7:5 8:4 9:3 1:2
Week 3 2:10 3:1 4:9 5:8 6:7
Week 4 10:7 8:6 9:5 1:4 2:3
Week 5 3:10 4:2 5:1 6:9 7:8
Week 6 10:8 9:7 1:6 2:5 3:4
Week 7 4:10 5:3 6:2 7:1 8:9
Week 8 10:9 1:8 2:7 3:6 4:5
Week 9 5:10 6:4 7:3 8:2 9:1

I will always announce the pairings for the week each Monday explicitly so there is no confusion!

Week 1 Matchups

February 11th, 2008 16 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess, Tournament of Lepers