Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:49:42 08/22/01
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On August 22, 2001 at 11:00:30, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On August 21, 2001 at 14:40:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 21, 2001 at 13:58:22, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On August 21, 2001 at 11:42:42, Roy Eassa wrote: >>> >>>>The top 4 are Junior, Tiger, Fritz, and Shredder. >>>> >>>>That can't come as a huge suprise to anybody. >>> >>>The surprise is that Ferret is not in the top 4. Recent contests where Ferret >>>participated: >>> >>>First Place: >>>http://www.vrichey.de/cct3/cct3gamestab.htm >>> >>>Second Place: >>>http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~wccc99/ >>> >>>I am a bit surprised at the current position. I am also curious as to what >>>Bruce thinks about the current run of games for Ferret. >> >> >>This is a tournament with too many rounds and too few players. With 4 more >>rounds left, the current standings mean absolutely nothing. Because you can >>bet that the top half of the field is going to have to play everybody up there, >>and that hasn't happened yet. It will get _very_ bloody the last four rounds >>and the current standings won't mean much then... > >I think the number of rounds is quite adequate to the number of players. Or it >would if the field were more even. >José. With 18 players, optimal number of rounds is either 17 or 5. playing more than 5 just scrambles the top part up and lets the lower-rated programs move up by playing each other, while the higher rated players move down for the same reason... Then you have the "luck of the draw". Not to mention the problem that all the "important" games have been played before the last rounds...
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