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by Alan Atkinson » Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:40 pm
The Northumbria Masters this year produced a large number of norms: perhaps we might first recognise that the arbiter team for this event again allowed players to gain title norms, not something that many events consistently achieve.
FIDE were sent the PGNs, and so will have info about the colour rotation, which was done correctly, and about the correct individual pairings, which were decided by lot and published online and to the players themselves in advance of the event's start.
It is a pity that Swiss Manager does not easily output the correct colour rotation to Chess-Results, from where I assume most of the commentators here have obtained their information.
I will take the point made by Jack Rudd that I might have then manually inputted the pairings, but that in turn might have raised more eyebrows at FIDE!
I do intend raising the matter with H Hertzog, and ask if there might be some way to output the data the way I wanted it. Those that use Swiss Manager might aknowledge that it does have a range of particular little sub-routines: I might have missed the one, but this was a new format to me too. Maybe Heinz has already addressed the matter.
Perhaps if individuals here have time available, they might set up the event manually and upload it to Chess-Results, so as to show the actual colours used, but I do not have that time. And over the duration of the event, my arbiter team certainly did not. FIDE do not use colours in determining ratings, and so I did not see it as a matter of very high priority. And as already stated, the colours were known in advance to all that mattered, and FIDE were aware because every PGN is available to them. And the actual colours used rotated correctly.
So what is the problem here?
Finally, we have an event that produces norm opportunities for our players and arbiters. It did not cost the Federation so very much.
Is it too much to ask for people to support and celebrate such events?