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Subject: Re: In english please :-)

Author: Robert Pope

Date: 13:30:15 08/24/00

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On August 24, 2000 at 14:07:10, Shanti wrote:

>On August 24, 2000 at 13:58:18, Helmut Conrady wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2000 at 13:53:26, Shanti wrote:
>>
>>Look at this:
>>
>>3. The tournament will be a 9-round Swiss. Standard pairings will be used. Ties
>>will be scored by sum of opponents scores.

Test 1: Highest score wins.
Test 2: If test 1 is a tie, add up the scores for each opponent you played
against.  This is called the "sum of opponents' scores".  If you played tough
opponents (high scores), you will get more credit than someone who played weaker
opponents.  Highest SOS wins.

>>If SOS are tied, ties will be further
>>scored by the programs cumulative scores after each round (i.e. score after
>>round 1 plus score after round 2, etc).

Test 3: If test 2 is also a tie, then you take each computer's point score after
each round and sum them.  So a computer who's rounds went: 1, 1, 0.5, 0 would
have end-of-round scores of: 1, 2, 2.5, 2.5 and his total is 1 + 2 + 2.5 + 2.5 =
8.  Highest score wins the tie-break.

>>If there is a tie for a title, the top
>>two (using tie-break scoring) tied programs will play a play-off game. The rate

I believe there are three different awards being given at WMCCC.  If test 1 was
a tie, they will use tests 2 and 3 to pick the two best in that category and
have them play one game to decide who to give the award to.

>>of play for a play-off game will be all moves in one hour, or such other rate as
>>the TD may specify, considering the time available to play the game.
>>
>>
>>Helmut



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