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Subject: Re: The swiss system is unfair for Junior

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 16:10:36 06/19/99

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On June 19, 1999 at 19:06:23, Peter Kappler wrote:

>On June 19, 1999 at 16:32:41, blass uri wrote:
>
>>Junior 4.5 out of 7 is better than cilkchess 5 out of 7 because Junior played
>>against better oponnents.
>>
>>Junior won cilkchess and played against
>>Shredder,Fritz,Darkthought,Nimzo,Hiarcs,Eugen(all of these program have at least
>>4.5 out of 7 except hiarcs and Eugen with 4 out of 7)
>>
>>Cilkchess was lucky to play against weak programs like patzer and sos in the
>>first 2 rounds and did not play against strong opponents except Junior,dark
>>thought and Hiarcs7.
>>
>>
>>The result is that the humans are going to have an easier job tommorow because
>>they are not going to play the best 4 computers.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>Easy way to solve this problem is to play more rounds.  I think seven was not
>enough.
>
>--Peter


It was a big improvement over five!

WMCCC is eleven rounds.  But, as has been said before ad nauseum, it's tough to
book a supercomputer for an entire week.

Dave



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