Author: José Carlos
Date: 06:15:07 03/07/01
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On March 07, 2001 at 07:34:02, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >>... >>Nothing new under the sun except that perhaps some people are not aware >>of how things work in world championship tournaments (or SSDF) because >>they have never been involved. New is that in Thorsten's case he tries to >>simulate the world championship system and we are not used to that as we >>are used to fixed tournaments only. > >It's not really new. I would say, it's the usual way to do tournaments. Look for >instance at Frank Quisinsky's or Torsten Schoop's tournaments. In most cases, >the organizer allows updates. > >Sure, you can also find arguments for the other kind of tourneys like Andreas or >Dann are doing. If you want to evaluate special versions of programs, you have >to forbid updates. > >I would say, it's the freedom of the organizer to determine these rules, because >it's his time and his efforts to perfom it. > >Uli > >> >>I like both systems and have no preferences. >> >>Ed Both systems are Ok, IMO, but usually I do kind of a mixture in my tournaments (which, BTW, I don't usually post): I allow updates during the tournamet, and I even go back to an older version if I feel the newst is weaker, but for computing in my rating list, I have different accounts for different versions. So, if program A 1.0 plays the first two rounds, the games are computed as A 1.0. After that, a new release comes out, say A 1.1, and I update it for the tourney. But the next games are computed to a new account A 1.1. That way, I have different rating for different versions (scientific part) and strongest version for the tournament (competitive part). As well, I usually test new versions of mid-strength programs against old versions of strong programs, so old programs rating is comparable to new programs. José C.
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