Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:23:01 08/29/00
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On August 29, 2000 at 14:04:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 29, 2000 at 12:21:16, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I think that the pairing in the last round was fair because >>zchess had weaker opponents than Sos(even after the last round I found that Sos >>had a better opponents score. >> >>The sum of Sos opponent score is 39.5 when the sum of zchess oppont score was >>only 36. >> >>Zchess cannot complain about unjustice in the pairing. >> >>The program that can complain about unjustice not because of the pairing is >>insomniac that is the real amatuer world champion. >> >>Sos is sold as part of the young talent and by definition is a professional >>program. >> >>Chessbase could do it amatuer by not selling it before the WMCCC but they did >>not do it. >> >>Uri > > >I disagree with the pairing comment. Pairing is an _exact_ methodology. There >is no room to shuffle things to produce what someone thinks would be the most >interesting matches. You seed the programs, then the pairings are automatic >from that point forward, based on wins, losses, draws, and initial seeding >number. > >We never had this problem when Mike Valvo and David Levy ran the events as TDs, >I wonder what has changed to cause the problems in the last few events? :) Exactly. The correct pairing was Zchess-SOS, no discussion there. Only v/d Herik found it was different better. Obviously chessbase needed a title and v/d herik is no arbiter. I don't know Valvo nor Levy as TDs, but Levy has IM behind his name. He sure would have remembered how you pair.
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