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Subject: Re: Why Fritz has to play against FIBIChess (for E.Nemeth)

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 12:57:15 07/09/04

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On July 09, 2004 at 09:59:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 09, 2004 at 02:23:28, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>On July 08, 2004 at 17:06:20, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On July 08, 2004 at 16:59:07, James Robertson wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 08, 2004 at 16:50:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 08, 2004 at 16:30:07, Ingo Althofer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On July 08, 2004 at 15:07:14, Anson T J wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>WCCC  2004 Cross Table After Round 6
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                    1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0  1  2  3  4
>>>>>>>1 Deep JuniorEY     *  ½  1  ½        1     1     1             5.0/6
>>>>>>>2 Shredder          ½  *     ½  1  ½  1     ½                   4.0/6
>>>>>>>3 Deep Sjeng        0     *     ½  ½     1  ½        1          3.5/6  11.00
>>>>>>>4 Jonny 2.64        ½  ½     *        ½  0     1        1       3.5/6  10.25
>>>>>>>5 ParSOS               0  ½     *        ½     ½  1  1          3.5/6  9.75
>>>>>>>6 Fritz                ½  ½        *     0  1  ½        1       3.5/6  9.50
>>>>>>>7 Diep              0  0     ½        *  1           1  1       3.5/6  9.25
>>>>>>>8 Falcon Bar-Ilan         0  1  ½  1  0  *                 1    3.5/6  8.75
>>>>>>>9 Crafty 19.15      0  ½  ½        0        *  1           1    3.0/6
>>>>>>>0 ISIChess                   0  ½  ½        0  *  ½        1    2.5/6  4.75
>>>>>>>1 WoodPusher 1997   0           0              ½  *  ½  ½  1    2.5/6  3.25
>>>>>>>2 Movei                   0     0     0           ½  *  1  1    2.5/6  2.75
>>>>>>>3 The Crazy Bishop           0     0  0           ½  0  *  1    1.5/6
>>>>>>>4 FIBIChess                              0  0  0  0  0  0  *    0.0/6
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks for the good presentation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>And now it becomes clear, why Fritz has to play against FIBIChess:
>>>>>>FIBI has played already against all on ranks 8 to 13... and Fritz is on
>>>>>>shared rank 3 to 8.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ingo Althofer.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This obviously caused by _way_ too many rounds for 14 participants.  It will
>>>>>almost end up a round robin, lacking only two games to make that happen...
>>>>
>>>>I don't see why this particular pairing is caused by the large number of rounds.
>>>>If there were only 7 rounds instead of 11, wouldn't the pairings up to this
>>>>point be exactly the same? Does the pairing program take into account the number
>>>>of rounds?
>>>
>>>No.  The point is that the top programs have _already_ played.  Now all that can
>>>be done is to pair them down.
>>>
>>
>>A glance at the cross-table shows that this is not true. There are still many
>>games missing among the top 8. E.g. Rank 2 & 3 have not played yet.
>>
>>Amir
>
>The "top eight" really doesn't matter.  I was specifically referring to Junior,
>Shredder and Fritz...
>
>They were the obvious picks to win.  They've played.

Well, you have 2 out of 3 right ... Junior vs. Fritz will probably be played in
the 9th or 10th round.

Amir




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