On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:30:01 -0700 (PDT), Gerben Dirksen
<gerben47@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>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
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>If you want to play 6 vs 6 and not 4 vs 4 vs 4, you can try this:
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>3 sessions, in each one of the three pairs of each team is the anchor
>pair.
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>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.
I think this is essentially what I suggested in response to Ken
(bottom of post). Are you saying something different?
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