Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 11:45:29 06/08/99
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On June 08, 1999 at 13:51:13, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On June 08, 1999 at 12:44:04, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >>What I most dislike is that nobody knows which are the strongest entries, so I >>do not see how the accelerated pairings will help to match them more >>frequently. >>I think one of the premises for accelerated pairings to work is to have a good >>ranking of the players, like an established ratings list. But I remember >>somebody said that in these tournaments the entries are ranked according to >>the TD's guesses. I do not think that is a good ranking. >>José. > >There's plenty of background material to rank the players on, including the >result of previous tournaments and, for some entrants, the SSDF list. It's not >as good as it would be in a human tournament, but it is acceptable. <snip> >Upsets happen, but since a reasonable ranking can be made before the event, it >is okay to use accelerated pairings. > >Dave I don't really agree that 'reasonable rankings' can be determined before the event in this case. Any previous performances were from older, presumably weaker, versions of these programs, running on slower hardware(?), against other, older, weaker programs on slower hardware. Not to mention that some of these have NOT performed before. (Please correct if I'm wrong. :) How will the TD choose the 'strongest' programs? Will he guess? Pick the programs he 'likes' best? I see no clear way to choose. Jeremiah
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