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Subject: Re: crafty not alone with difficult pairings

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:33:26 08/18/05

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On August 18, 2005 at 14:50:45, Marc Lacrosse wrote:

>On August 18, 2005 at 14:02:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>Not quite.  50% chance that we get 5 whites vs 6 whites.  But almost zero
>>chances to get another lot where we get blacks against the top programs.  That
>>was the "incredible luck" I mentioned.  For example, did anyone else get black
>>against shredder, junior, zappa, fruit, for starters???
>
>Lots are truly incredible for Crafty, but Fruit was not too lucky also :
>
>5 white 6 black like crafty
>black against zappa, shredder, junior and deep sjeng
>
>OK we were white against you ...
>
>but not to happy with the rest.
>
>Marc

Maybe in a single RR, this is more common than I thought.

I've run lots of human RR events, but so far as I can recall, most were double
RR to avoid the "luck" factor in color assignments.

Or in this case the "unluck" factor.  :)




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