Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 08:27:01 11/05/97
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On November 05, 1997 at 11:13:09, Bas Hamstra wrote: > >>>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. Ah, the Eifel Tower great suit and tie skandal. Dinner up the tower required an embourgoisification for the evening. Unfortunately this proved impossible for certain competitors. These low-life proletarian skum stayed away and plotted revolution in the arab pink-plastic with stains tabled 'restaurant' (no tie necessary). Thorsten is dying of salmonella poisoning as we speak. > >>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. Well, you'll just have to contend with knowing which one is truly worst :) > >>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. Andreas is flogging his PC to death in an attempt to bring you the answer .... Chris > >Regards, >Bas Hamstra.
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