2009-10 Schenectady CC Championship

Hello there, all you readers.

This is a little update to summarize some of what Bill will presumably be discussing in his next post here. I discovered that the HTML crosstable output from ChessBase is actually of reasonable quality, and thought I'd put up the current crosstable of the Schenectady Chess Club championship finals as an exercise. Hopefully this will be an encouragement to others to use such a tool when posting tournament crosstables, as ChessBase or other such programs take some of the extra work out of formatting a complete table of results--you don't have to total up people's scores by hand, for example, risking an embarrassing error in arithmetic, or go back and forth making sure that a "1" in the box for a given game on one side of the crosstable really does have a corresponding "0" on the other side for the opponent.

I'm not quite sure yet how to control the font size in a table like this. Maybe once a tournament gets to a certain size, the crosstable becomes too wide to post without shrinking the text. Length isn't so much of a concern--adding more rows should be fine and not impair readability.

Anyway, here's your update for the moment. Bill Little is probably coming along with the games from last week.

Schenectady CC Ch finals 2009-10

1	Mockler, Mike	1917	&;	0	1	1			2.0 / 3
2	Sells, Philip	1986	1	&;			1		2.0 / 2
3	Phillips, John	1883	0		&;	½		1	1.5 / 3
4	Howard, Dean	2000	0		½	&;	1		1.5 / 3
5	Chi, Patrick	1978		0		0	&;		0.0 / 2
6	Rotter, Bobby	1930			0			&;	0.0 / 1

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