Mechanism of tournaments

hi alois and jeff,

i was just wondering how tournaments such as the beijing 2008 operate? as till now i thought it was a knock out type, but it didnt explain how jorgen persson had lost twice to wang liqin and wang hao respectively( alongside spectacular wins wins with samsonov and primorac too, of course! )

Hi Shripathi,

The competition was a knockout event however the losers of the semi finals had to play off for the Bronze medal.  Since Jorgen lost to Wang Hao in the semi final he then had to play Wang Liqin who lost in the other semi final to Ma Lin.  He lost this match as well to miss out on the Bronze medal.