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Subject: Re: Tournament: no of rounds?

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 07:35:42 11/05/97

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On November 05, 1997 at 09:34:46, Andreas Mader wrote:
>On November 05, 1997 at 07:45:44, Chris Whittington wrote:
>>On November 05, 1997 at 07:10:19, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>
>>>[Chance best program wins tournament]

>>What do you want, everything pinned down to 50 decimal places ? This is
>>KK mathematical logic, only allowed on rgcc :)
>>
>>Chris Whittington
>>
>
>Hehehe!
>
>Maybe my password for CCC will be canceled by Chris for this but I wrote
>a little program (with many simplifications, too) and 'played' 100.000
>times a 11 round tournament with 33 equally strong programs and one with
>a 60 per cent win probability. In the end the 'stronger' program has the
>most points in 28.5 per cent of all the tournaments (many times together
>with at least one other program).
>
>What I have to do now is to evaluate all 34 programs with certain
>probabilities and write a swiss tournament manager to make this
>simulation even better and to please Chris.... :)

Great info, please continue! If you could incorporate a rough estimate
of the relative strength of the programs and the usual way of pairing
programs I would be very interested in the results.


Regards,
Bas Hamstra.



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