Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:00:16 07/14/05
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On July 14, 2005 at 15:33:02, Madhavan wrote:
>Just saw the result of Last WCCC,I wonder why there was only 11 games instead of
>round robin 13 games?
>
>Round robin of 13 games looks better than Swiss of 11 games,swiss WCCC IMO seems
>quite unfair.
>Fritz was lucky because not having played 2 good opponents.Fritz was unlucky
>too,speaking about its perfomance
>with only 2 more round to play why the schedule had not been extended?
Do you know how many games would be involved in round robin format?
Swiss tournaments decide two things:
Strongest
Weakest
There is almost no data for inbetween (e.g. the Swiss format is not at all
reliable to say -- for instance -- which participant was 3rd strongest).
But it decides the {admittedly weak} answer in a provably minimal number of
games.
If you really want to know which program is strongest, you need a format like
the SSDF. Nobody has the patience to play that many games in a tournament.
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