Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:11:49 06/10/99
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On June 10, 1999 at 13:09:09, Sylvain Renard wrote: > I suppose it will be the same as in Paris 1997 : the decisions are taken >by Mr Marsland , Levy, Van den Herik (the board of ICCA). If there is an >official arbiter to do the pairings, he will have to execute the orders >even if he thinks they are stupid. > The tournament rules have been published. >Rule n°4 : "The tournament will be a 7-round Swiss-system event, using standard >(non-accelerated) swiss pairings. ... " >Changing this rule now would be scandalous. I predict a big fight. >In this event, we don't know if there will be an official arbiter to do the >pairings. The complete rules of the Swiss-system are rather complex >(7 pages in french with the comments) and I don't think you can do the pairings >without error if you are just a self-declared TD... >Another important point is the ranking of the programs : nobody knows it (except >the ICCA organizers) ! This situation would never be accepted by human players >even in subregional tournament! > To make things clear, an official ranking should be created. The number of >programs is much smaller compared with human chess players, so I don't >think it is a terrible task to manage this. The ICCA would decide >which tournaments can be taken into account. Nobody could rank them based upon any real evidence. Many of the programs haven't competed since the last WMCCC. They spend a lot of time trying to rank the programs, based upon whatever evidence they have. I don't think I'd take issue with this part of it at least. bruce
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