Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:27:32 01/18/00
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On January 17, 2000 at 13:34:10, Will Singleton wrote: > >I was thinking about the initial seeding for the ICC tourney (starting Jan 29, >ICC, don't miss it), and it seems to me that the hardware should be taken into >account. For example, some folks will be running multiple cpus, at least one >will be on a 1ghz machine, and some will be as slow as 300mhz. :) > >So, I'd like to see a list of the hardware for this tourney. And, for those who >are familiar with such things, what is the relative importance of the initial >seeding in a tourney such as this? > >+------------------------------------------------+ >|Program Main Author ICC Handle | >+--------------+------------------+--------------+ >|Amateur Will Singleton Amateur | >| | >|Averno Jos? C M Gal?n | >| | >|Bringer Gerrit Reubold Bringer | >| | >|Crafty Robert Hyatt Crafty | >| | >|Diep Vincent Diepeveen DiepX | >| | >|EXchess Dan Homan EXchess | >| | >|Ferret Bruce Moreland Ferret | >| | >|Galahad James Swafford GalahadX | >| | >|GnuChess Stuart Cracraft GnuChess | >| | >|Grok Peter Kappler | >| | >|Hossa Steffen A. Jakob Hossa | >| | >|Insomniac James Robertson | >| | >|LambChop Peter McKenzie LambChop | >| | >|Little Goliath Michael Borgstaedt | >| | >|Nimzo Chrilly Donninger Varguz | >| | >|PostModernist Andrew Williams PostModernist | >| | >|Shredder Stefan Meyer-Kahlen | >| | >|Tinker Brian Richardson Tinker | >| | >|UruChess Nicol?s Carrasco UruChess | >| | >|ZarkovX John Stanback ZarkovX | >+------------------------------------------------+ Seeding doesn't matter if the number of rounds is >= log2(number of players). In big events, this isn't possible, so you end up with a log-jam at the top, with a bunch of 5 point finishers. Seeding ensures that the highest rated player generally has the highest tie-break (sum of opponent's scores or whatever is used). When number of rounds is >= log2(players) the probability of this happening goes down. In our case, 8 rounds is way larger. It won't matter at all... It would be fun to let everyone seed the thing just before it starts, just to see who comes closest, at least in the top half..
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