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Subject: Re: Fritz6 - Tiger12, autoplayer, 40/120: 0-2, (2 draws)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:59:50 10/22/99

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On October 22, 1999 at 07:44:11, Shep wrote:

>On October 21, 1999 at 18:09:09, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On October 21, 1999 at 13:04:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On October 21, 1999 at 12:38:17, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>>
>>>>400 Mhz machines.
>>>>Will post games later when 10 or 20 games
>>>>have been played.
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't follow "0-2 (2 draws)".  Does that mean 2 games played and they
>>>were draws?  4 games played with Tiger winning 2 with 2 draws?
>>>
>>>Bob
>>
>>Fritz does not count the draws.
>>
>>if you count them, its 4 games played, 1-3.
>>
>>i am lazy and fritz presents the results in this strange way... as 0-2, 2 draws
>
>It's not too strange. If you present a result as "3:1", it doesn't tell whether
>it was "3 wins, 1 loss" or "2 wins, 2 draws". So Fritz' method does have a
>point.
>
>---
>Shep


true, although statistically it doesn't matter, if Elo calculations are the
goal.  But more sensible would be something like +0 =2 -2 or some such way
of displaying results.



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