Author: Harald Faber
Date: 06:30:47 07/13/99
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On July 13, 1999 at 09:25:22, Shep wrote: >>You astonish me on and on. >>AFTER the tourney you decide to continue the interrupted game or not, based on >>the ranking and effects a different result woud have??? > >Yes. It is another "optimization". If no significance for the overall standings >can be expected from a (hypothetically) different result in an adjudicated game, >I see no point wasting another day finishing the game. Don't you think it may influence the pairings? >Just like I never watch the 3rd place playoff in soccer WCs. :) Ya, I know the winner takes it all... >>I know and that is why I set the time control either 40/120+g/60 or if not >>possible g/180. > >I usually prefer playing at these time controls, too, but the SC is an >exception. And this is also yet another remainder of the "old times", since e.g. >Rebel 9 had no "g/180" time control... I know. :-( >>>Yes, but as they always say, that is "not statistically significant". :) >> >>ONE may not be statistical relevant. BTW a 9 round-robin isn't either... > >Then again, what is? Not even SSDF... Or just about any tourney in any sports >category in the world, for that matter. ;-) I know but I didn't start the idea of statistical relevance. >>But if you adjust say 3 or more games for a program in the tourney the result >>can be VERY different. > >True. That's why I keep track of these adjudications ("adjustment" has a >connotation of biased influence, I think) in order to avoid them summing up to >be significant. ? How? Next games are played until the total end? >>>where Rebel was up +3 against Genius and did not win (but this was a rapid >>>game). >> >>I know such strange games/evals. > >They used to be rare, but seem to be becoming more and more common since many >strong programs can now save a game which would have been dead lost 2 years ago. For example. >>Fine, finally we agree. :-) > >What a red letter day for our calendar! ;-)) >--- >Shep Did we ever disagree? I remember we agreed on the CM5k settings. :-)
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