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TD CORNER
By Tim Just
Humanized Pairings?
Below is a wall chart in standings order. After that are three sets of pairings. One set was flesh and bone created. Two different silicon chip laden pairings programs generated the other two. Can you spot the human’s handiwork?
Let me know what you think at: uscfrulebook@yahoo.com.
| | Name/Rtng/ID | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 |
| 1 | Stanislav | B 8 | W 6 | B 2 | W 4 | |
| | 2543 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | |
| 2 | Angelo | W 9 | B 5 | W 1 | B 8 | |
| | 2486 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 3.0 | |
| 4 | Igor | W 11 | B 10 | W 7 | B 1 | |
| | 2264 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 | |
| 6 | Christopher | W 13 | B 1 | W 9 | bye | |
| | 2073 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | |
| 3 | Aleksanda | B 10 | B 7 | W 5 | W 11 | |
| | 2328 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | |
| 5 | Albert | B 12 | W 2 | B 3 | Withdraw | Withdraw |
| | 2236 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | |
| 8 | William | W 1 | B 11 | W 13 | W 2 | |
| | 2030 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | |
| 9 | Rajen | B 2 | W 14 | B 6 | B 7 | |
| | 2018 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | |
| 14 | Dushyan | W 7 | B 9 | bye | B 13 | |
| | 1814 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | |
| 10 | Lawrence | W 3 | W 4 | B 11 | B 12 | |
| | 2000 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | |
| 11 | Richard | B 4 | W 8 | W 10 | B 3 | |
| | 1956 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | |
| 7 | Mark | B 14 | W 3 | B 4 | W 9 | Withdraw |
| | 2031 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| 13 | Walt | B 6 | W 12 | B 8 | W 14 | |
| | 1890 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | |
| 12 | Andrew | W 5 | B 13 | bye | W 10 | |
| | 1942 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | |
| | Pairings A | Pairings B | Pairings C |
| 1 | Rajen | Stanislav | Aleksanda | Stanislav | Stanislav | Aleksanda |
| 2 | Angelo | Christopher | Angelo | Igor | Angelo | Igor |
| 3 | Igor | Aleksanda | Christopher | William | Dushyan | Christopher |
| 4 | Dushyan | William | Rajen | Richard | Rajen | William |
| 5 | Richard | Andrew | Dushyan | Andrew | Richard | Andrew |
| 6 | Lawrence | Walt | Lawrence | Walt | Lawrence | Walt |
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