Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 13:29:52 07/14/05
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On July 14, 2005 at 16:00:16, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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
>
Even if there are only decisive games and the number of rounds is bigger than
the binary logarithm of the number of players, it does not necesarily decide
weakest. For example, there is a three-round six-player swiss tournament with
two players ending at zero points. That can happen because pairing rules are not
symmetric with respect to leaders and last-placers.
José.
>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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