Author: Mark Young
Date: 03:13:48 06/17/04
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On June 16, 2004 at 20:47:15, Mike Byrne wrote: >On June 16, 2004 at 20:30:56, David Dahlem wrote: > >>On June 16, 2004 at 18:59:55, Mike Byrne wrote: >> >>>On June 16, 2004 at 17:27:17, Andrei P wrote: >>> >>>>has anybody tried to astimate top engine ratings vs humans by discarding the >>>>drawn games from the analysis and looking only at the decisive games? >>> >>> >>>I don't understand the objective why one would want to do that. The way ELO >>>ratings were defined by Dr. Elo, you would always factor drawn games in. His >>>methodology does not allow for discarding drawn games. Therfore, ratings >>>without drawn games would be without the same statistical significance as >>>developed under his system. >> >>Didn't Fischer once propose a championship match system whereby only wins >>counted, the first player to win a specified number of games declared the match >>winner? This is not really responsive to the posters question, i just thought >>i'd throw it in. :-) >> >>Regards >>Dave > >I actually like that for WC play. I read his question as a "rating" question, >but for match play - first 10 wins can be very exciting (in my view). Many WC matches have been played counting only wins. First player to win 6 games was the usual format. I don't know how long you have followed chess, but this format was given up after the first GM Karpov Vs. GM Kasparov WC match. After GM Karpov won 5 games but could not win his 6th games after many weeks of play. With GM Kasparov was catching up. So fide stopped the match.:) Saying the players were too fatigued to continue. (Fide meaning GM Karpov :) )
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