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

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 07:19:06 03/03/05

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On March 03, 2005 at 08:27:38, Gabor Szots wrote:

>>>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?

Neither the 1st nor last sentence were necessary. My apologies to everyone and
to Mr. Werton in particular. It seems that due to my thick head, I keep having
to relearn the lessons of tact and patience. Evidently, I was in a foul mood
when I wrote it at work, but that is no excuse.



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