Author: Chessfun
Date: 10:54:59 04/17/01
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On April 17, 2001 at 13:40:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 17, 2001 at 10:25:33, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On April 17, 2001 at 09:57:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Supposed _I_ set up a tournament to choose the program to play? And then >>>suppose _I_ said "if you want in, send me $50,000 to enter your program."?? >>> >>>Would you enter even if you _knew_ Rebel xx was the best in the world? And >>>risk that kind of money to get in knowing that one game can be lost due to a >>>bad book line or bug? >>> >>>Charging an entry fee is a bit of a joke, IMHO. >>> >>>It means the deeper your pockets, the better your chances... >> >>Well, at least there's a refund for those that don't make it :-). >> >>Seriously, can anyone blaim SMK for not handing over $5000 and Shredder to a >>third party for this socalled qualifier? I think not. >> >>Mogens. > > >Let's try a different approach. Let _me_ handle the qualification tournament. >Here are my rules: Making posts as above "is a bit of a joke, IMHO" since you clearly hadn't even bothered reading the current rules well enough to know the $5,000.00 was refunded to losing programs. >Any publicly released chess program can enter. Including patches. So Rebel >could enter 2 programs since Ed has (I think) released the original rebel plus >a patch this year. I get to enter all 19 released versions of Crafty. If those >are the only two entries, care to bet who is going to win? Statistically one >of my 19 versions will win even if all are worse than either of Ed's two >versions. > >This is what has happened if you include Deep Shredder, Deep Fritz, and Deep >Junior. A trivia question: Which chess distributor has the best chance of >winning that event? :) > >It is called "stacking the deck in your favor." Hogwash. Tell that to Amir Ban. In your case above tell me that Amir wouldn't want to win as much as Stefan and that his odds of doing so are greater due to your "stacking the deck in your favor." theory. >It is also ridiculous, too. As was what I read. Sarah.
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