Author: Uri Blass
Date: 19:50:02 08/14/05
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On August 14, 2005 at 21:57:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 14, 2005 at 21:44:56, Madhavan wrote: > >>On August 14, 2005 at 21:26:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On August 14, 2005 at 19:40:27, Darrel Briley wrote: >>> >>>>On August 14, 2005 at 17:59:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 14, 2005 at 16:47:43, Darrel Briley wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On August 14, 2005 at 15:22:43, Graham Banks wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Best wishes for the remaining games. It would be really good for this to be the >>>>>>>best Crafty ever! Fingers and toes crossed! >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Graham. >>>>>> >>>>>>1.5 with two blacks vs. Shredder and Junior. Impressive indeed. >>>>>>Congratulations Bob! >>>>>> >>>>>> DB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>We were white in round 1 against shredder... >>>> >>>>Oh. The "coverage" of the even so far has been somewhat confused. The pgn file >>>>I have shows Crafty as black. >>>> >>>> DB >>> >>>I think I was wrong. I checked the logs and apparently Crafty was black in both >>>round 1 and round 2. Makes one ask how that is possible? I have TD'd several >>>events, and I have _never_ seen this happen. Not ever. Not over the first two >>>rounds... >>> >>>Something is broken... >> >>Oh Bob,You don't spectate Crafty's games at ICC or Playchess?Doesn't chessbase >>offer you free membership? >> >>Congrats to you for getting the fantastic result of 1.5/2 as black against the >>top 2 programs >> >>:) > >I didn't know the first round would be on ICC, if it was. I was just watching >Crafty's log file to see what was happening, and didn't really think about the >color at the time. Until several people commented on "how did you get black >twice against the top two seeds in the tournament?" After seeing that asked >enough, I decided that something was amiss and I had missed an important detail. > I was correct. :) > >I think these events are becoming (a) irrelevant. 10-12 programs, hardly any >commercial programs, who cares after the CCT events with 30-50 programs entered? > (b) useless due to incompetence. Remember the draw-nodraw-draw Jonny game last >year and the utterly absurd TD decision? The pairings this year just add to >that feeling of incompetence. (c) I suspect this might be my last such event. >If they want to maintain such a high level of incompetence year after year, from >publicity to providing up-to-date information about games, pairings, etc, then I >may well let 'em be incompetent with out me... > >The only real suspense each year for these events is "what is going to be >screwed up beyond all recognition this year?" I can add that if the swiss system is used then I wonder why Crafty got Junior when it could get a program that drew the first game possible pairing for the second round when 1 plays against 1 0.5 against 0.5 and 0 against 0 could be: 1)Junior-Zappa 2)Diep-Fruit or Fruit-Diep(one has to be black twice because 3 out of 4 won with black in the first round) 3)Crafty-Baron 4)Deep Sjeng-Shredder 5)Jonny-the crazy bishop 6)Isichess-Fute MT or the opposite(one has to be white twice) The main question is if it is possible to complete the event to a round robin event when all the players get 5 white or 6 white because if after some round it is impossible than worse problems than what happened can happen. Uri
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