Author: Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz
Date: 16:40:14 01/31/04
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On January 31, 2004 at 19:16:03, Uri Blass wrote: >I think that it is a mistake to change the pairing after players started to play > >What is your opinion. > >I think that it is possible that operators went to sleep after starting the last >round and if we decide to make new pairing programs may get a technical win > >I think that the demage from technical wins is bigger than the demage from wrong >pairing so pairing should not be changed after the games started. > >Uri Probably. However, pairings in a tournament with so many participants and so few games means that the winner/s is/are almost predetermined -statistically-... as usual. Only if every engine played against every other one many times, it would be poosible get a real sense of "who's the strongest" (again considering the hardware, etc...); but then, for fifty-something engines, having a "fair" tournament it would mean to wait for a long long time indeed. We all know this, don't we? It is just a game. It is not a completely fair game, but it is fun anyway. I'll face you all in the next tournament, and then you'll have a chance to hear my complaints. ;) Regards, Jaime
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