The early Norwegian tournaments had a primitive tournament system.
There was always one round of qualification and then a final board. So the result of the final board is also the top 7 of the tournament. The players eliminated in the qualification round were never ranked. If we'd had a proper tournament system in those years, there would probably have been much more than 49 players in the early Acon tournaments. They could have played more rounds and more boards. However, the TD limited the number to 7 boards in the qualification round and 1 board in the final round. |