Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 09:36:01 12/29/03
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On December 29, 2003 at 11:27:40, Christophe Theron wrote: [snip] >I am less and less interested in participating in tournaments. They are just >lotteries. > >I think that playing more games (and using faster time controls so playing a lot >of games becomes possible) would be good, and I could then reconsider. I think the problem is not really that tournaments are lotteries. Afterall, they always were, to a certain extend. And not just in sports, everywhere. I think the problem is that the results of these tournaments are so important. If people were less subjective but more objective, they would see these tournaments as fun-events and when it comes to real strength they would consider a rating list which includes _a lot_ of games. (although, as Vincent posted recently, the SSDF probably also has their own problems (I don't know whether it's true or not since I'm not involved at all in this, but it sounds likely to me that some of his claims are valid there)) It's sad if commercial programmers have to decide it's better for them not to show up at all than risk a bad rank in a major tournament. But I guess that's just the way it is. (pesky customers! :o) Sargon
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