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R55Max
To Gaudin:
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Just one LSM was enough to drive me crazy.
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Mr. Gaudin, I must point out that I didn't "drive you crazy," but rather, you were unable to answer my simple questions regarding your own rules and their implementation by the participants. Eventually, you concluded that you no longer wanted to ask or consult with anyone and made your decision based on what you considered to be correct, rather than following the rules. This certainly fits your description of me "driving you crazy," but as the saying goes, "a bad taste remains." In the end, after warning you in advance, I calmly withdrew from the tournament without dragging our entire conversation onto the forum and bothering other people. Therefore, please refrain from involving me in this tournament and complaining that I supposedly "drove you crazy." That's not true, and it's not very polite.

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Gaudin

This is an absolutely NORMAL situation in real chess tournaments; to avoid delaying the draw, postponed games are scheduled.
This is an absolutely UNUSUAL situation in real chess tournaments. In chess tournaments played using the Swiss system, the draw for the next round is not conducted until the previous round is finished. I'm telling you this as a frequent participant in these very Swiss system chess tournaments, including national ones like the Aeroflot Open, and also as a chess tournament judge, conducting tournaments both in a round-robin and Swiss system.

P.P.S. If it's not too much trouble, could you provide an example of a Swiss system chess tournament where the draw for the next round was conducted before the previous round was finished? Perhaps I missed something, and chess has also developed its own "Fursenko" system...

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Dirty_Player
I didn't delve too deeply into the topic because I don't want to waste time reading lengthy, pointless discussions. I'll just say that in Heroes, an online tournament using the Swiss system cannot be conducted without postponed games. With this system, the only option is a conditional draw; otherwise, either everyone waits, or those who didn't finish on time receive a technical result (which is also not correct because there will be many such results).
Yes. That's why the standard Swiss system is not a very good choice for such tournaments. Modified Swiss systems with conditional 0.5 points are also not a solution to the problem; they're just a band-aid.
By the way, I was also surprised by the choice of head-to-head and Berger as additional indicators, rather than Buchholz. While the head-to-head can be understood, as a way to choose the stronger player in a direct match, although this is strange for the Swiss system, Berger is usually used in round-robin tournaments, while Buchholz and progress are used in Swiss tournaments.

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