Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:40:21 09/10/99
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On September 10, 1999 at 06:04:42, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Perhaps Ed should clarify this issue. > >My only goal is to find out how Rebel will do against GM's at tournament >time control. Because of the attention the event gets I can afford to put >some money and time in it. > >As for the question, "count this game or not" I on my abacus will not >count this game because the game was not representative to the above >mentioned goal. > >Officially this game counts of course. A PC can break any time. A pity but >it is simply all in the game. A human can go to the bathroom and lose on >time, no win on my personal abacus then but the win officially will count. What a terrible situation. I think you could best solve this by running a reliable version on reliable hardware. If it is your goal to get results you can do science on, then it shouldn't matter much if you don't run bleeding edge stuff. If you score X% on a stock 450, it should look as impressive as scoring X+5% on something that's been hopped up. It's a little strange to run bleeding edge stuff, and take the extra performance and extra strength, but discard the down-side, which is that sometimes things catch on fire. In hindsight, you should have established a rule that for statistical purposes, you would count *no* game that involved any sort of crash. You shouldn't count wins where you have crashes and discard losses. bruce
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