Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:03:27 05/17/00
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On May 17, 2000 at 13:18:02, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On May 16, 2000 at 22:33:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >> >>Just call the USCF and ask what happens when the opponent doesn't show up. >>The game is _not_ rated. > > But Bosboom did show up and played three moves. If van der Sterren does not >show up for the game, then that game would definitely not be rated by USCF, by >the Mexican chess federation or FIDE (I have not checked recently, but last time >FIDE did not rate forfeit loses). The Canadian chess federation does rate >forfeits. Sure, but that is only a technicality. Had there been no financial penalty for not playing at all, he simply would not have shown up at the start of the game. I suspect the game will be rated by the Federation. But I think doing so is incorrect... at least when trying to measure a program's performance... it didn't do anything to earn a win... > I think Fritz-Bosboom would be rated by any chess federation (unless it is >found it was a fixed result, which would lead to severe penalties for both >players). > I agree that this result does not reflect Fritz playing strenght, but then we >can not be choosing which results do count and which do not. For Chris' >purposes, I think he should count any game that would be rated, and let other >people interpret the results. >José.
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