Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 13:34:23 02/08/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 15:53:24, Russell Reagan wrote: >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 Luck is part of any sport. This system works very well in soccer. >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. This idea has been tried and buried after Karpov - Kasparov first match. That was a match were everybody lost. Press, players etc. I do not think that anybody will try it anymore. Miguel
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