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Subject: Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 14:47:05 01/20/03

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On January 20, 2003 at 16:51:00, Dann Corbit wrote:

>No contest can truly tell us which program is strongest.  Not even a trillion
>rounds of round-robin.

So how many?  Or can we never know anything?  And what does it therefore mean to
be strongest?

Frank

>
>However, for a given number of games, a swiss tournament tells us more about
>which player is strongest (and weakest) than any other format does.

• Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program Dann Corbit 18:18:48 01/20/03
  • Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program Frank Phillips 10:19:29 01/21/03
  • Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program Dann Corbit 18:20:35 01/20/03
    • Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program Rolf Tueschen 03:00:27 01/21/03
      • Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program Dann Corbit 11:07:13 01/21/03
        • Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program Rolf Tueschen 12:45:56 01/21/03
          • Re: 9 rounds will not always give you the "best" program Sune Fischer 04:55:11 01/22/03
            • Re: We have no chess journalists in CC! Rolf Tueschen 10:32:59 01/22/03

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