Re: Re: Ten chess-players...
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- Subject: [mg104289] Re: [mg104252] Re: Ten chess-players...
- From: danl at wolfram.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:25:24 -0500 (EST)
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> > <cmpbrn at gmail.com> wrote in message news:hbu7nh$7g2$1 at smc.vnet.net... >> Given 10 (1 to 10) chess-players, in one day they play 5 games (1-2, >> 6-10, 5-7, 4-8, 3-9). >> Then they need 8 more days to complete the championship (one gamer >> must play one time against any other player): >> 1-3, 2-10, 6-7, 5-8, 4-9 >> 1-4, 2-3, 7-10, 6-8, 5-9 >> 1-5, 2-4, 3-10, 7-8, 6-9 >> 1-6, 2-5, 3-4, 7-9, 8-10 >> 1-7, 2-6, 3-5, 4-10, 8-9 >> 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5, 9-10 >> 1-9, 2-8, 3-7, 4-6, 5-10 >> 1-10, 2-9, 3-8, 4-7, 5-6 >> >> How can I get the 10*(10-1)/2 = 45 pairs distributed in the 9x5 >> matrix? >> What's about any other even number of players? >> >> Bruno >> > > There is already websites to do round robin scheduling. You select the > number of players, and it generates the pairings for you. Here is one for > example > > http://www.devenezia.com/downloads/round-robin/index.html > > Implementing the algorithm in Mathematica should not be hard. There are > algorithms and source code in other languages shown on the web site for > this > as well (unless someone already did this in Mathematica). > > --Nasser Here are some possibly relevant links. http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/Tournaments/ http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SocialGolferProblem/ http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tournament.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TournamentMatrix.html Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research