Author: John Merlino
Date: 08:51:54 12/20/02
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On December 20, 2002 at 10:48:51, Mike Byrne wrote: >I just finished reviewing 72 games froma tournament in process, In one of those >games, Tao never made a move after exiting the opening book and lost on time. > >What is the proper way to handle that? > >Is it "It is what it is" and I leave it alone - or do I replay the game. > >My own thoughts are ".. to be fair - the game should be replayed" On the hand, >I could see the argument that game counts and is not to be replayed. > >What are the thoughts here from fellow chess computer tournament runners? The first thing to do, before you play any other games with Tao, is to determine what is causing the problem. There is no point in continuing using Tao if this problem has the possibility of occurring again. If you find that the problem is not fixable, then there are two scenarios: 1) The problem happens every time -- No problem. Tao will always lose, and since your tournament is a round robin, all of the other engines will get the same number of points playing against it, so nobody gets an unfair advantage. Just make sure to remove Tao from your final standings/statistics and your PGN file, so you won't have to explain what happened. It will be like Tao was never in the tournament. 2) The problem does not happen every time -- This is annoying. If it were ME, I would remove Tao from the tournament, as its presence completely corrupts the standings. If the problem is your fault and was fixable, then you should rerun the Tao games that had the problem. If the problem was NOT your fault and was fixable, then you get to play TD and decide for yourself if Tao's loss must stand or not. jm
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