Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:12:29 09/09/99
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On September 08, 1999 at 18:08:56, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 08, 1999 at 17:36:38, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>Should the game Rebel-Hoffman be taken in account to calculate the performance >>rating of Rebel in the GM challenge? >> >>-Yes 1 >>-No >>-Abstain > >Why such an absurd position as to claim it should count despite machine crashes? > >Because it does not matter *why* the outcome was as it was. > The policy of "what it was it was" is sensible if a real tournament is being performed, but this is not the case. There is not a trophee, nothing in dispute. The entire idea is to see if a program obviusly running in normal conditions can match the wit of a GM. The result, them, would be also unaccountable if the GM fall victim of a heart stroke. I am sure in that case Ed would not ask the victory because the GM did not comply with the time limit. >If a GM defaults because he does not feel well enough to continue, does that >invalidate the loss? No. And neither should this one. See reasons above. Tournament are like races and everything counts, of course, but Ed challenge is not a tournament.Is more an experiment. You does not validate an experiment if you know that the condtions were not fulfilled. > >No cries of "mess-up... do-over" should be allowed. Who is doing such thing? fernando
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