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Antoine Fourrière wrote on Sat, Feb 5, 2005 06:49 AM UTC:
I also wish to compete in this Tournament. Please count me in.

Regarding time limits, I have no strict formula in head, but I'm on the
side of leniency. Yes, 14 days of spare time does seem an improvement.
I'm also in favor of giving the players the possibility to allow each
other more time through a command (rather through repeating idle moves).
I would suggest to state that the referee may start a new round of games
without the agreement of the players which haven't completed all their
previous games (but not without two-week advance notice).

Another problem might be: what if there are more participants than last
time? How do you decide who is going to face whom? Through a random draw
of the opponents (alphabetical order is as good as any the first time, but
might become bothersome the following year), and game assignment only
later? (Perhaps Fergus might then propose an exchange of opponents to a
group of four players in order to meet their preferences.) If and when
such a problem occurs (and I hope it eventually does), I would suggest
some kind of play-off (say, a round of four/six games between the top
five/seven, with ties broken through the round-robin ranking) at the end of
the year to mitigate the luck factor.

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