Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 07:40:25 07/11/02
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On July 11, 2002 at 10:29:51, Sylvain Renard wrote: >On July 11, 2002 at 10:19:10, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On July 11, 2002 at 10:17:03, Anson T J wrote: >> >>>How many rounds for this play off? Is it just the one? >> >>2 and then one more if needed... > > Hello, >when rules have changed again??? Here are the "official rules" >(http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/Olympiad2002/) : > >Tie-breaking: (a) if precisely two participants are tied for first place, >precisely one play-off game under standard conditions is to be played. Should >that game be drawn, the tie-ranking rule in part (b) decides the winner; (b) >whenever two or more teams have an equal number of points, a tie-ranking order >is defined as follows. The dominant ranking is by the sum of the opponents’ >scores. If there is still a tie, the sum of the respective programs’ cumulative >scores after each round (i.e., score after round - 1 + score after round - 2 + >…. + score after last-round) will be used; (c) if three or more participants are >tied for first place, then the two participants ranked most highly are to be >determined by the tie-ranking order in (b). this pair of participants then play >off as in (a). > > It is not the first time that ICCA rules are flexible...!!! > > Best regards, > Sylvain Renard The rules have been defined at a meeting between Shredder, Junior, Brutus, who also could have come in first, and Prof. Jaap de Heringk. The third game would be with less time for Black but Black only needed a draw. White must win. Rolf Tueschen
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