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Subject: Re: If chess was football, then "The King" would have won!

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 11:27:30 10/27/03

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On October 27, 2003 at 13:09:41, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On October 27, 2003 at 07:59:38, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>It is quite interesting to compare the performance of the 7 top placed programs
>>in Leiden in a little "fictional" round robin.  Just look at the cross-table:
>>
>>
>>Dutch Open Leidan  2003
>>=======================
>>                  1 2 3 4 5 6 7
>>1   Ruffian       * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½  4,5
>>2   The King      0 * 1 0 1 1 1  4,0
>>3   Chess Tiger   ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1  3,0
>>4   Deep Sjeng    ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½  3,5
>>5   Rebel         0 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½  2,5
>>6   IsiChess MMX  0 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1  2,0
>>7   Diep          ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 *  1,5
>>
>>
>
>It would be interesting if in a top tournament like that,we had a different
>rating system. Like football for example. Win=3 points/Lose=0/Draw=1.
>Then The King would have won:
>
>Program	Wins  Draws   Loses   Points
>--------------------------------------
>TheKing	  8	1	2	25
>Ruffian	  7	3	1	24
>C.T-X	  6	4	1	22
>Rebel	  6	3	2	21
>Isichess  6	2	3	20
>Dsjeng	  4	7	0	19
>Diep	  5	3	3	18
>The Baron 5	0	6	15
>Tao	  4	3	4	15
>Xinix	  3	3	5	12
>Ant	  2	4	5	10
>Nullmover 2	1	8	7
>Zzzzz	  1	2	8	5
>Gnu	  0	0	11	0
>-------------------------------------
>I can't decide which rating system (football or chess) is best and as we saw,
>it does matter what system we use.


Great deductive powers on your part.  I am thrilled by the analogy you used. If
only my students exhibited that kind of creativity...

Djordje





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