Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 06:37:51 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 09:13:29, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 20, 2003 at 08:50:51, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On January 19, 2003 at 23:00:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >> >>>However, an engine can be tuned for blitz or tuned for longer games. Is it >>>fair to have the engine play the main games at a slow time control, then when >>>a couple tie, to use a totally different time control? Does that _really_ show >>>which of the two should have won the tournament??? >> >>Was it really known in advance that in case of a tie-break, you had to go into >>different time modes? If not, then this is surely a flaw in the 5th tournament. >>Also it might well be that progs had different conditions in that respect. I do >>not think about Crafty alone but also about Yace. It looked as if that mode in >>the end was completely against its former performance. Also Crafty beat Ruffian >>before and suddenly in Blitz Ruffian should beat all? Something smells fishy a >>bit. BTW who decided the conditions in the end? Volker alone? >> >>It's perhaps necessary to declare here that human players might well have >>disadvantages in different amounts if it comes to a change of time schedules but >>at least - it is said - humans have the inborn talent to adapt to the new >>conditions. However, if it was not even known in advance, the programmers had no >>chance to instruct their progs to adapt on unclear events. I thought that this >>was common sense in CC... > >It was all decided in advance, Volker didn't improvise anything at the last >minute. There was plenty time to debate and change the rules _before_ the event. > >Whether Hyatt is right or wrong is moot now, it's over and done with, Ruffian >won, _period_. > >We can debate the rules next time :) That shouldn't be the motto of CCC for sure. But you are right with the conditions, I didn't know that until just a few minutes ago when I read it and I already excused myself for that one. I fear that Bob or Bruce didn't even think that they could be that strong and so they didn't spend too much thought on that matter, the tie-break. BTW we had the same procedure in Masstricht. I am sure that SHREDDER would be Wch and not JUNIOR if it wouldn't have been in Blitz at the end. Rolf Tueschen > >-S. > >>Rolf Tueschen
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