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Subject: Elo on Fischer's conditions vs. Karpov
Date: 4 Nov 2006 18:10:17 -0800
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Jud McCranie wrote:
On 4 Nov 2006 14:58:54 -0800, "
wrote:

1. If the match at any time stands at 9:9 it indicates an
equality between the contestants.

3. Thus a win by either player in the next decisive game shows
no superiority any more than a single throw of a coin shows a
superiority of heads or tails.

This doesn't make any sense to me. Whomever wins the next game as won
10 to 9.

4. A 9:9 result then is properly declared a drawn match since
the challenger has shown no clear superiority.

If the challenger won the next game, it would be 10 to 9, and he would
have shown a clear superiority.

If it is a match until one player wins 10 games, then the challenger
needs to have the opportunity to win that 10th game, if it is 9 to 9.
I would have expected better logic by Elo, but he was pretty old at
that time.


My impression was that either Dr. Elo was making some
kind of odd joke, or else his logic cells were just burnt out.

In particular, step number 3 falls flat on its face when it
mistakenly tries to equate a toss of a coin (random chance)
to GM Fischer winning that 10th game. (Insert Blairian
quote here, of GM Fischer stating that chess is a game of
*skill*.)

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