Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 18:52:54 04/23/04
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On April 23, 2004 at 19:29:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On April 23, 2004 at 19:21:40, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On April 23, 2004 at 16:54:57, Theo van der Storm wrote: >> >>>ICT4 round 3 results on http://www.computerschaak.nl/ >>> >>>Ranking after round 3 of 4th International CSVN Tournament, Leiden >>>No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR W-We >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 1. 8 Diep 3.0 5.0 5.00 6.0 0000 - 0 >>> 2. 1 Hydra 2.5 5.0 4.25 4.5 0000 - 0 >>> 5 Chess Tiger 2.5 4.0 3.25 5.0 0000 - 0 >>> 4. 3 Shredder 2.0 5.0 2.00 5.0 0000 - 0 >>> 4 The King 2.0 5.0 2.00 4.0 0000 - 0 >>> 2 Ruffian 2.0 4.5 2.00 4.0 0000 - 0 >>> 15 Nexus 2.0 4.0 2.00 4.0 0000 - 0 >>> 8. 9 IsiChess 1.5 6.0 2.25 3.5 0000 - 0 >>> 6 Deep Sjeng 1.5 5.0 1.25 4.0 0000 - 0 >>> 10. 10 The Baron 1.0 5.0 1.00 2.0 0000 - 0 >>> 16 Neurosis 1.0 4.5 0.00 1.0 0000 - 0 >>> 7 Tao 1.0 4.0 0.00 2.0 0000 - 0 >>> 12 GoldBar 1.0 4.0 0.00 2.0 0000 - 0 >>> 13 Zzzzzz 1.0 3.5 0.00 1.0 0000 - 0 >>> 15. 11 Ant 0.0 4.0 0.00 0.0 0000 - 0 >>> 14 Praetorian 0.0 3.5 0.00 0.0 0000 - 0 >>> >>>Pairing of round 4 of 4th International CSVN Tournament, Leiden >>>Table White - Black Results >>>----------------------------------------------------------------------- round 4 >>> 1 Diep ( 3 ) - Chess Tiger ( 2½) 8- 5 >>> 2 Nexus ( 2 ) - Hydra ( 2½) 15- 1 >>> 3 The King ( 2 ) - Ruffian ( 2 ) 4- 2 >>> 4 Shredder ( 2 ) - Deep Sjeng ( 1½) 3- 6 >>> 5 IsiChess ( 1½) - Zzzzzz ( 1 ) 9- 13 >>> 6 GoldBar ( 1 ) - The Baron ( 1 ) 12- 10 >>> 7 Tao ( 1 ) - Neurosis ( 1 ) 7- 16 >>> 8 Ant ( 0 ) - Praetorian ( 0 ) 11- 14 >> >>How exactly were the seedings done? I have a hard time believing that Diep was >>seeded 8th in this field. I thought it would be higher. Also how did Hydra grab >>the #1 seeding? >> >>Peter > >One being liked and the other being disliked by tournament director? > >It would've been indeed appropriate to seed shredder as #1 IMHO. But there is >this fair rule that when at the end of the tournament if you are for example >divided 1st then the money gets divided. So the lower seeding which means that >unless you win first X games in a row, your first opponent already gives you a >kind of a disadvantage because of his statistically possible lower sum of >opponents, that all is not taken into account when dividing the money. > >The winner on buchholz just gets that nice ship with him, but if it's divided >1st or 2nd you simply split the money. > >So that kind of removes the seeding problem quite appropriate. By the way i knew >in advance that i would get shredder in round 2 or 3 when yesterday i checked >out the seedings before the tournament, provided diep wouldn't lose a game. I >was so lucky to get white. > >Best regards, >Vincent What I meant is that Diep is seeded 8th. Looking at the list or participants, Diep could have been seeded 6th based off of previous results. Tao is seeded higher than Diep. How does that happen? No offence to Tao but there are no sustained _proven_ results to make it seeded above Diep. I have a hard enough time giving Diep compliments, how about not trying to spell them out? :) Peter.
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