Author: Harald Faber
Date: 06:30:47 07/13/99
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On July 13, 1999 at 09:25:22, Shep wrote:
>>You astonish me on and on.
>>AFTER the tourney you decide to continue the interrupted game or not, based on
>>the ranking and effects a different result woud have???
>
>Yes. It is another "optimization". If no significance for the overall standings
>can be expected from a (hypothetically) different result in an adjudicated game,
>I see no point wasting another day finishing the game.
Don't you think it may influence the pairings?
>Just like I never watch the 3rd place playoff in soccer WCs. :)
Ya, I know the winner takes it all...
>>I know and that is why I set the time control either 40/120+g/60 or if not
>>possible g/180.
>
>I usually prefer playing at these time controls, too, but the SC is an
>exception. And this is also yet another remainder of the "old times", since e.g.
>Rebel 9 had no "g/180" time control...
I know. :-(
>>>Yes, but as they always say, that is "not statistically significant". :)
>>
>>ONE may not be statistical relevant. BTW a 9 round-robin isn't either...
>
>Then again, what is? Not even SSDF... Or just about any tourney in any sports
>category in the world, for that matter. ;-)
I know but I didn't start the idea of statistical relevance.
>>But if you adjust say 3 or more games for a program in the tourney the result
>>can be VERY different.
>
>True. That's why I keep track of these adjudications ("adjustment" has a
>connotation of biased influence, I think) in order to avoid them summing up to
>be significant.
? How? Next games are played until the total end?
>>>where Rebel was up +3 against Genius and did not win (but this was a rapid
>>>game).
>>
>>I know such strange games/evals.
>
>They used to be rare, but seem to be becoming more and more common since many
>strong programs can now save a game which would have been dead lost 2 years ago.
For example.
>>Fine, finally we agree. :-)
>
>What a red letter day for our calendar! ;-))
>---
>Shep
Did we ever disagree? I remember we agreed on the CM5k settings. :-)
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