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Subject: Re: In ALL 39 matches, the first to 10.5 was also the first to reach 15.

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 21:16:23 10/30/05

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On October 30, 2005 at 23:23:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 30, 2005 at 13:14:28, Graham Banks wrote:
>
>>So I don't see any point in running 30 game matches in any future Knockout
>>tournaments I may decide to run when 20 game matches are likely to produce the
>>same results.
>>
>>I know that some of you will pull out the old statement about 20 or 30 games
>>between two engines close in strength not saying anything, but have a good hard
>>look at some of the match ups that occurred in this tournament.
>>I'm not saying you're wrong (because you're not!), but it wasn't borne out in
>>this tournament.
>
>There was no time when the result after 20 games was 10-10 in all 39 matches?
>
>Uri


Hi Uri,

there were no matches that stood at 10-10 after 20 games in this tournament.
I've had a few in the other tournaments I ran, but not this one.

Graham.



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