Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:10:37 08/14/05
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On August 14, 2005 at 22:50:02, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I've TD'd round robins. There are plenty of pre-printed RR playing schedules for different numbers of players. Then you have each player draw a number from a hat, which matches up with a number on the round schedules. You don't do pairings between rounds normally, as there are programs to do this sort of analysis and schedule generation...
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