Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 12:53:24 02/08/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 15:07:19, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >In tournaments, a win could be 3 points and draw 1 point for each. A loss, 0 >points. Just like soccer. It was tried in some tournaments in Argentina. >I think that in fact it was the scoring in the tournament that C. Tiger played. As with most systems (including the currently used one), this has flaws. I would prefer the current one to this one, simply because to get a win, you kind of have to get "lucky" in a sense (since it is highly likely that perfect chess is a draw). So you are rewarding people who get lucky. Imagine all of the weaker players in a swiss. The players at the top are drawing, and a mid range player who lost early is racking up the points. Maybe a better system would require us to look at it from an entirely different perspective. Maybe "points" aren't the way to go. It is also different in tournaments than it is in a match. In a match, you could count only wins, and at the highest levels, I see nothing wrong with this. Maybe the match goes 100 games. Who cares? It's not like Kasparov and Kramnik have to take time off work to play these matches. That IS their work. Tournament play is tougher to figure out of course, since counting only wins isn't reasonable, since wins require luck, and a tournament has a fixed round number.
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