Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 20:04:18 06/08/99
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On June 08, 1999 at 22:53:15, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On June 08, 1999 at 16:53:48, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: [snip] >> The goal of the accelerated pairings in this case is to produce more games >>among the top entries, if I understood well. I think that a ranking based on >>guesses will have too many wildly misplaced entries, enough to prevent the >>accelerated pairings to reach the goal. >>José. > >You might be right. It's tough to know this in advance! :-) My opinion is that >it will be okay, but if yours is different, that is okay. There is very, very little mathematically known about any of the entries. The software has been reworked, in some cases radically so. The hardware is completely different than any measured platform. So SSDF results are practically useless. Quite frankly, the mathematical certainty of some tournament director saying "x is stronger than y" is no better than reaching for colored balls in a black bag. In FIDE matches or USCF matches or things of that nature, the ELO is very well established. It makes absolutely no sense for them to set it up this way. The approach is altogether wrong.
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