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Subject: Re: Tactical Position - Fruit v Crafty (WCCC 2005)

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 09:54:24 08/18/05

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On August 18, 2005 at 11:45:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 18, 2005 at 11:38:45, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On August 18, 2005 at 11:30:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>BTW, since there are no public pairings available, when do we play?  I am
>>>assuming not tomorrow morning, as two more blacks in a row is impossible for any
>>>decent RR pairing program.
>>
>>Friday
>>
>>Crafty - Futé
>>Jonny - Crafty
>>
>>Saturday
>>
>>Crafty - Baron
>>Zappa - Crafty
>>
>>Sunday
>>
>>Crafty - Isichess
>
>
>that is truly incredible luck.  Not only do we get to be one of 6 that get the
>extra black, but we get black against every strong opponent in the event...  I'm
>going to look at what has to go wrong to cause that.  Normally RR events have a
>seeding to order the players, whether that will avoid this or not I don't know
>without some study...

Well. now I understand VD:

"Personally i give crafty 0%, simply because last 16 years the winner of
the world championship has been a program with the machine local at
the tournament site."

Maybe the local machines get more whites. :D

Conspiracy theorie regards
Andy



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