Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:46:54 09/09/99
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On September 09, 1999 at 12:12:29, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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. Equipment failure is just one more real reason that a computer may lose to a human player. If you discount this variable you damage the experiment. I have the evil heart of a machine in such cases. My eye will show no pity. >>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. If there was a precondition that the match would be invalid in the case of machine failure (Or perhaps GM indigestion) then I would accept this position. >>No cries of "mess-up... do-over" should be allowed. > >Who is doing such thing? Those who say that the result is not valid.
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