Pairings for Round 5
2008 Polgar: Polgar 2008
Bd Res White Player Name Res Black Player Name
1 Rita Mirchandani (1813 : b : 3.5) – Courtney Jamison (2046 : b : 4.0)
2 Amelia Wheeless (1711 : w : 3.5) – Linda Diaz (1726 : b : 3.5)
3 Brianna Conley (1573 : WW : 3.0) – Ashley Carter (1877 : b : 3.0)
4 Michelle Xue Chen (1762 : w : 3.0) – Rheanna English (1713 : b : 3.0)
5 Alexandra Wiener (1560 : w : 3.0) – Eve Zhurbinskiy (1747 : b : 3.0)
6 Fiona Lam (1727 : w : 3.0) – Rebekah Liu (1699 : b : 3.0)
7 Sylvia S Yang (1911 : w : 2.5) – Rebecca Lelko (1595 : BB : 2.5)
8 Taylor Bailey (1650 : b : 2.5) – Janice Chen (1772 : b : 2.5)
9 Nisha Deolalikar (1726 : WW : 2.5) – Sayaka Foley (1652 : w : 2.5)
10 Angel Bohannon (1700 : w : 2.5) – WCM Claudia Munoz (1324 : BB : 2.5)
11 Shinan Jin (1686 : w : 2.0) – Hannah Hellwig (1333 : b : 2.0)
12 Melanie Newell (1198 : WW : 2.0) – Ananya Roy (1683 : b : 2.0)
13 Sonya Vohra (1621 : w : 2.0) – Elizabeth Oliver (1322 : BB : 2.0)
14 Michelle Farell (1506 : w : 2.0) – Mira Ensley-field (1258 : b : 2.0)
15 Leanne Hwa (1436 : w : 2.0) – Annie Wang (879 : b : 2.0)
16 Emily Tallo (1349 : w : 2.0) – Ashbea Oyadomari (900 : BB : 2.0)
17 Alexa Lasley (1141 : w : 2.0) – Jamie Olsen-Mills (1617 : b : 1.5)
18 Erica Barkell (1315 : w : 1.5) – Autumn Douthitt (1154 : b : 1.5)
19 Joanna Gossell (1255 : w : 1.5) – Susan Lynn Brown (969 : b : 1.5)
20 Sorel Edes (1098 : w : 1.5) – Georgia Olvera (1292 : b : 1.0)
21 Sarah Garza (1244 : w : 1.0) – Kaitlynn Loos (734 : b : 1.0)
22 Rebecca Deland (1166 : w : 1.0) – Catherine Oliver (719 : b : 1.0)
23 Morgan Mahowald (994 : w : 1.0) – Dhrooti Vyas (1117 : b : 1.0)
24 Crystal Qian (924 : w : 1.0) – Katrina Pritchard (1008 : b : 1.0)
25 Ann Marie Fitch (893 : w : 1.0) – Alisha Chawla (819 : w : 0.0)
26 Faith A Munoz (0 : WW : 0.0) – Hannah Whatley (669 : b : 0.5)
The last post about the Round 4 pairings said:
“When both players are due for the same color, the higher-ranked player gets the color she is due.”
But here in Rnd 5, Brd 1, we have both players due a ‘b’, and the lower-rated player getting White.
This is not as stated in the quote, but is as I would expect it to be to make a better game.
‘BB’ presumably means ‘well overdue’ for Black. For example, on Board 10 C Munoz has had WBWW so far and should expect two Blacks in the last two rounds.
Would like to know what pairing system and software is being used here. Apart from one or two oddities, it seems good enough.
Black is higher-ranked player because she has more points.
Hang on. If both players are due Black, and the lower rated player gets White, what’s wrong with that? The higher rated player gets the color she was due.
USCF color rules are a bit more complicated than people say in this blog. If both players have the same colors in the past, then you first look at color history (e.g. WBWB vs BWWB) to determine who gets white (in this case the WBWB gets white). If both players have identical color history (e.g. WBWB vs WBWB) then the higher ranked player (taking into account both score and rating) gets the correct color.
It looks like the US Chess Federation pairing system, and the software being http://www.swisssys.com
Anon 7.17 is right: thanks for the correction.
I read ‘the colour she is due’ as ‘White’ – not right.
Good one, fpawn