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Subject: Re: The swiss system is unfair for Junior

Author: blass uri

Date: 17:05:04 06/21/99

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On June 21, 1999 at 06:58:23, Harald Faber wrote:

>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?

I mean that Junior without hardware makes a plus of more than 40pts
with hardware it may be +100 pts or +120 pts but it is probably not enough
because my impression is that  shredder4 did a progress of 150 pts relative to
shredder3.

Uri



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