Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:10:49 01/20/03
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On January 20, 2003 at 16:20:35, James T. Walker wrote: >On January 20, 2003 at 15:25:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 20, 2003 at 11:39:27, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>Neither will 90 rounds. I've seen some discussion about the >>>times/rounds/playoffs of CCT mostly looking for ways to improve the format. In >>>my opinion as a spectator the format is great. I even liked the playoff format. >>> I believe a world championship was decided in a similiar manner not too long >>>ago. Nobody should expect a swiss system event to produce the strongest player >>>as the winner every time. However in my opinion this was the case this time. >>>I'm also curious about some programmers claiming the blitz playoff is not good >>>because their program is tuned for longer time controls. I wonder how you do >>>that. I mean if you are playing your program on ICC for games, how does playing >>>80% or more of your games at blitz/lightning help you to tune for 40/2? Why >>>would you want your program to perform better at 40/2 than at G/5 compared to >>>other engines? It seems to me that the SSDF is one of the few organizations >>>still using 40/2 for comparison. I see this as an outdated idea. The trend is >>>toward faster time controls to better serve the spectators interest. All this >>>is from a non programming spectator so don't give it much thought. >>>:-) >>>Jim >> >> >>You miss the point. A _tournament_ will _never_ give you the "best program." >> >>It will just give you a winner, hopefully. There is a big difference between >>"winner" and "best program". The difference can be explained statistically, if >>you are interested... > >How did I miss the point since that was the topic of my post? I suspect you >missed the point. >Jim OK.. perhaps I misunderstood your first "implication". "neither will 90 games." That seems to be leading into the old "you need a _bunch_ of games to separate two programs that are very close" discussion. And no tournament ever claims to identify the "best player". They just identify "the winner"
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