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Subject: Re: It's time to award 3 points for a won game.

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 05:27:38 03/03/05

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>>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.

Was your last sentence necessary to make your argument convincing?



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