Joined two 960 tournaments for diversity

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ElKitch

Recently I joined a 960 tournament with 11 games simultaneous. I was a bit disappointed that all couples play the same position. Why not give each couple a different 960 position? 

Anyway, most of my games of the first tournament are finished. So I joined another.. only to get almost the same position, but mirrored :)

SimaSun

Well, there is over 0,1% chance you will get the same position. So getting an almost identical position is quite likely.

Also of course you can not get different positions in the same tournament, that would be extremely unfair.

corpsporc
SimaSun wrote:

Well, there is over 0,1% chance you will get the same position. So getting an almost identical position is quite likely.

'Tis true, for almost all definitions of "almost".

ElKitch
SimaSun wrote:

Also of course you can not get different positions in the same tournament, that would be extremely unfair.

why? if we play position A both as black and white. And you and Corpsporc play position B, both as black and white. And Corpsporc and I play position C, both as black and white.

Then we have played 3 different positions, but both as blac and white. Well, it probably has someting to do that some positions are a bit more drawish for instance, and I would be lucky to play a drawish position against the strongest player.

SimaSun

It's unfair because different people might play better with certain setups than others, so of course everyone has to play the same position.