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Subject: Re: WCCC participants and a board and pieces.

Author: Louis Fagliano

Date: 15:06:45 06/19/02

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On June 19, 2002 at 12:53:34, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On June 19, 2002 at 11:08:22, Louis Fagliano wrote:
>
>>Well, a handwritten scoresheet would be less cumbersome than a board and pieces
>>-- and more permanent, too.
>
>Problem of this is that people write mistakes (happens a lot more
>than power failures). It also takes a lot longer to play out 60
>moves from the sheet rather than to set up the board visually.
>
>--
>GCP

Ah, but you have to multiply probabilities to get the worst case scenario.

It would have to be the probability of a mistake on a score sheet MULTIPLIED by
the probability of a power failure.  The chances of both occuring are very
small.



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