Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:12:48 06/13/01
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On June 13, 2001 at 14:37:58, Rajen Gupta wrote: >i think the present system of terminating matches, midway (after less than 40 >games)is not quite ideal.the ssdf should play at least 40 games gainst other >programmes, and any matches which are not yet complete should either not figure >in a released rating list or alternatively the matches should proceed to >completion even after the list is released and be shown on the next list. i >think that this would be fair on other programmes > >as someone pointed out; it is easy to play a lot of games against a favourable >progrmme and less against unfavourable programmes in order to inflate a rating > >rajen There are simpler way to inflate a rating of programs if this is the purpose. The simplest way is to post results without games. It is known that most of the ssdf games are not public so it is easy for them to do it. Even if all the games are public it is still possible to ignore games that you do not like in order to get wrong results. Uri
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