Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:36:09 03/07/01
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Your tournaments are always interesting and demonstrate very good chess.
The objection of most posters that you are answering can be summed up as
follows:
Program Foo is in your contest.
Program Foo is upgraded to Foo-a and Foo-b during the contest.
Program Foo wins.
Was program Foo, Foo-a or Foo-b the winner? If I have Foo will it be able to
perform like Foo-b? Is a combination of Foo, Foo-a, and Foo-b even stronger
than a single entity, etc.
Now, we don't know the answer to any of those questions. So the next question
arises:
"Who cares?"
Many people will object about any format ('You can't please everybody.' is
probably about as concrete an assumption as will ever be made). I think we
cannot use the output for scientific measurements, but then -- most people don't
give a hoot about scientific measurement. If *you* make a tournament then *you*
make the rules. As long as the rules are fair and published, then I think you
should be able to do whatever you like.
I would think that you can weigh the opinions of others to decide whether or not
to change the rules in the future. Since it is your tournament, it is
completely up to you. You will (of course) hear monstrous squacks and groans no
matter what you decide.
I ran a big tournament a while back, and will run another one shortly. I made a
decision that the format of the tournament would be the one *I* was most happy
with. It will be the same on the next.
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