Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 01:56:07 03/03/05
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On March 03, 2005 at 03:29:43, Tony Werten wrote: >On March 02, 2005 at 12:19:13, Terry Giles wrote: > >> >>Hi CCC friends, >> >>After playing through some of the very short "grandmaster" draws at Linares, I >>feel that it's about time some of these tournament organisers started to award 3 >>points for a won game in an effort to get the players to try and win a game >>instead of fearing a loss. Chess today, well at least at the stratospheric >>heights of the "super-grandmasters", is far too technical and theory laden for >>most of the 'general' public to really appreciate and most of it has already >>been prepared and analysed at home. Something needs to be done to liven up the >>game, before the machines take over! >> >>Terry ;-) > >Taking the score sheet of Paderborn as example: Purely on points, Gandalf and >Spike would have switched places and Nexus would have finished 2 places higher. >I think the difference is too small for people to stop playing draws. Your conclusion is a non sequitur. All the programs in the tournament are playing in accordance with normal scoring, so that you should expect little difference. To support such a conclusion, you would have to show that programs that are made aware of the scoring change would not fare significantly better than those that are not. What you did instead is pure garbage. > >Tony > >Cross-table: > # Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 P 3P SB > 1 Hydra X 1 = 1 1 1 . 1 = . 1 . . 1 . . 8.0 23 > 2 Shredder 0 X 1 1 . . = 1 . 1 1 1 . . 1 . 7.5 22 > 3 Gandalf = 0 X 0 1 . . = 1 1 = . 1 . . . 5.5 15 > 4 Spike 0 0 1 X 0 = . . . 1 . . 1 1 . 1 5.5 16 > 5 Ikarus 0 . 0 1 X = = . = 1 . . . = . 1 5.0 13 > 6 The Baron 0 . . = = X . = 0 . 1 = . 1 . 1 5.0 13 > 7 Diep . = . . = . X = 0 = 0 . . 1 1 1 5.0 13 > 8 Anaconda 0 0 = . . = = X . 0 . 1 1 . 1 . 4.5 12 > 9 Jonny = . 0 . = 1 1 . X 0 = 1 . . 0 . 4.5 12 >10 Nexus . 0 0 0 0 . = 1 1 X . . 1 . 1 . 4.5 13 >11 SOS 0 0 = . . 0 1 . = . X 1 = . . 1 4.5 12 >12 Patzer . 0 . . . = . 0 0 . 0 X = 1 = = 3.0 7 >13 Neurologic . . 0 0 . . . 0 . 0 = = X = 1 = 3.0 7 >14 IsiChess 0 . . 0 = 0 0 . . . . 0 = X = 1 2.5 6 >15 Quark . 0 . . . . 0 0 1 0 . = 0 = X = 2.5 6 >16 Matador . . . 0 0 0 0 . . . 0 = = 0 = X 1.5 3
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