Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:32:35 05/19/00
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On May 19, 2000 at 15:29:52, KarinsDad wrote: >On May 16, 2000 at 23:42:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >[snip] >> >>In a round-robin, this works fine. Everyone has to play the computer. In a >>swiss, this can cause a few problems since everyone doesn't play the computer >>and that can skew the final standings, so that even if the computer doesn't win >>a prize, it exerts an influence on who does win it. > >Round robin is almost as bad as swiss. If everyone loses to the computer, then >no big deal. But, with different scores against the computer, a person who >scored 1.5 points against his 2 human opponents and 0 points against the >computer would lose to a person who scored 1 point against his 2 human opponents >(potentially 0 points against the first person) and 1 point against the >computer. I know that would annoy the heck out of me since the chess skill set >versus a computer is slightly different than the chess skill set versus most >humans. > >KarinsDad :) That is at least fair. Take the 1981 Mississippi Closed event we won with CB. The two-time winner elected to play the computer (USCF rules allowed anyone not wanting to play the computer to declare so before the tournament started and they would not be paired against it, period, which was a stupid rule as you shall soon see.) Other players opted out. Joe Sentef (the two-time winner, last 2 years) lost to CB. That was his only loss. The next-best player there Drew with Joe, but didn't play CB. He finished with 4.5 out of 5 and won the event (from the human perspective, athough CB was overall winner at 5-0). Players vying for first place _must_ play the computer if it is in first place. The best player there lost to the computer. The next best player there (a 2000 player btw) didn't lose to the machine and won the event. It caused a _huge_ fracus after the event was over... And it was our last such event to participate in.
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