Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:44:34 06/20/99
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On June 20, 1999 at 00:41:01, blass uri wrote: > >On June 20, 1999 at 00:31:47, Lin Harper wrote: > >> It's not fair to say one machine had stronger opponents >> than the other, Ferret played whatever it was paired against. > >I could agree if shredder and Ferret won all games except the games between them >but it is not the case. >If Ferret is not worse than Shredder then I expect Ferret to take advantage of >the fact that it played against weaker opponents and to have more points. > note that their tiebreak was 1.0 points different. Note that shredder was seeded very low (incorrectly) which paired it against a good opponent in round 1, while ferret was paired high (correctly) and was paired against a weaker opponent in round 1. That could account for the 1.0 difference in tie-break instantly... IE nothing says that shredder played better opponents... try the tiebreak without round 1 scores and see what happens... and then decide whether the sum-of-opponents is meaningful when they are that close. Both played well. And a coin-toss would have been just as accurate to pick the better program since they drew twice... >> It's also not fair not to have a second final shootout if >> the first was a draw. Ferret not only had to play for a win >> but do it with the black pieces. > >If ferret could win shredder with the white pieces in round 6 then it could be >the world champion without having to beat shredder with black pieces. > >The only thing that may be unfair is the fact that Shredder played 5 >games(including the last game) with white when Ferret played only 4 games with >white but playing the last game with opposite colours does not solve this >problem. > >Uri
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