Lurfys Maw wrote:
> We have a little social duplicate club with 6 couples that meets once
> a month. We usually either draw for partners or let couples play as
> partners and use a modified Howell movement for 3 tables.
>
> It has been suggested that it might be fun to mix it up a bit and play
> boys against girls or some other team arrangement. If we had 4 or 8
> pairs, I could do a team tournament, but I can't figure out a way to
> play 6 against 6.
>
> I have come up with two schemes.
>
> My first plan was to make 3 pairs of guys and 3 pairs of gals, then
> use our regular 5-round Howell movement. If I avoid assigning the
> three pairs of either team to the pair numbers that may all sit the
> same direction in a round, then we get 2 pairs on each team sitting NS
> and 1 EW each round, but in 3 of the 5 rounds, one table has guys
> against guys at one table and gals against gals at another.
>
> My second plan was to use a kind of Mitchell movement. I made 3 pairs
> of guys and 3 pairs of gals. I put the guys NS at 2 tables and EW at
> the other. The gals took the open seats. We played 3 rounds with the
> guys staying put and the gals moving clockwise into whatever open
> seats they are (EW at 2 tables and NS at 1).
>
> Can anyone suggest something better?
>
> This is a social group so I can do pretty much anything.
>
> Thanks
If you want to play 6 vs 6 and not 4 vs 4 vs 4, you can try this:
3 sessions, in each one of the three pairs of each team is the anchor
pair.
Table 1: Anchor pairs play against each other, Team A NS, Team B EW
Table 2 and 3: Team A is EW, Team B is NS
Then both tables 2 and 3 compare to table 1.
Gerben
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