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Subject: Re: The swiss system is unfair for Junior

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 03:58:23 06/21/99

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On June 21, 1999 at 06:07:13, blass uri wrote:

>I do not complain about the fact that shredder is first.
>I only said that Junior deserves a better place(I did not say first place)

This is always a problem with only few rounds. IMO Sonneborn-Berger at least
gives some better look at detail. But it only helps for same points.

>I have not enough data to be sure about nothing but I believe (based on the
>results of the tournaments and the games that I saw) that shredder is better
>than Deep Junior inspite of the hardware advantage of Deep Junior.

That is what has to be proved now.

>I believe based on my data(again I have not enough data to be sure about
>nothing) that Junior made  an improvement of more than 40 ssdf rating points(if
>we do not include the hardware improvement) but it is probably not enough to be
>better than shredder4.
>Uri

You mean Junior or Junior+hardware makes a plus of 40pts?



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