Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 09:22:00 05/29/01
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On May 28, 2001 at 23:42:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 28, 2001 at 19:48:21, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On May 28, 2001 at 19:44:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>With 5 games, any program has a very serious chance to win, give that it is >>>within 100 ELO. >> >>Hmm... maybe I should have added a ;-) somewhere to be on the safe side. But >>I'll bite anyway. What five games are you talking about? > >My mistake. The programs played 8 games. I thought it was the classical swiss >format where it takes only log2(entries) to complete. The log base 2 of 32 is >5. Since there were 8 games, I am not sure what format was in place. > It was the very classical swiss format. You seem to have some strange ideas about the swiss system, it is completely normal (and usual) that the number of rounds is higher than log2(entries). In some cases it is much higher, the old Nordic zonal tournaments were 9-round swiss with 18 players. José. >In any case, 8 games is pretty slim also. If the programs are about equal, it >will take a very high number of games to find out who is really stronger. > >But since you asked "which 5?" I'll say the first 5 of "deep-junior/deep-fritz" > Or the last 5. Take your pick.
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