Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:44:00 06/19/02
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On June 19, 2002 at 18:06:45, Louis Fagliano wrote: >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. Actually the probability of error on a hand-written scoresheet approaches 1.0. This from being a TD for _many_ human events over the years. And trying to electronically prepare a bulletin containing all the games. It is amazing how bad the scoresheets can be. having the sheet for both players helps a lot as it is a certainty that one or two mistakes per score sheet will happen. But with enough moves, the probability of the two players screwing up the same move is low. Not zero, unfortunately, but low..
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