Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 08:13:09 11/05/97
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>>Ah, come on. Quality... YES OR NO? Or...*OR* Quantitying...YES OR NO? >>Sometimes you sound a bit dogmatic. Let me ask you something. Are you a >>fundamentalist? YES OR NO? >> > >yes and no :) > >Ok, serious: wmcc used to 6 games or so. then it got increased to 11. >that's a week to play 11 games. We could ramp it up to 14, maybe, in >seven days. Then no half days to go visit the Eifel Tower or whatever is >it they visit. What, you mean they had actually time for that??? The whole world was waiting for the reports and Thorsten was running the Eiffeltower up and down? Imagine Kasparow-DB3, the press is there, whole world watching TV. But where is the operator? Oh, sight seeing. >11 rounds seems right for a weeks play. 11 rounds, I'm happy with the >general ranking at the very top and the very bottom. As ever with Swiss >the middle ranking are never separated very well, unfortunately. >But these events are more than ranking program and quantifying them. >Remember that Cyndi Lauper ? Girls just wanna have fun. A few chess >programmers, those that didn't lose the power of speech at birth, and >there are a few, like to have a little fun also ....... :) I agree, but not during a tournament. A few have to sacrifice for all. Totally. They don't necessarily have to have to die, but if they do, well, it's for a good cause: the Truth. The whole world will know which program is Truly best. >Even Thorsten (never drinks, never smokes, no drugs, probably still a >virgin), likes the occasional bit of fun - you want to make him play all >day, everyday just to get the 'statistical confidence' level a bit >higher ..... ? Depends. Of course there are practical limitations. Maybe we reached the practical limit already, I don't know. Maybe for more or less consistent results between tournaments an absurd number of rounds would have to be played. Or maybe not. I just would like to have an indication, that's all. Regards, Bas Hamstra.
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