Re: [pbmserv-dev] tournament scripts

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

I am personally of the opinion that Cathedral is less
asymmetric than folk wisdom would have one believe.  I
would be interested in seeing on the server what the
point spread is between black and white players
(although in some cases one would have to interpolate
the final result).

Making that change might affect the way people play,
since often the usual strategy for the endgame is to
guarantee that one of ones opponent's pieces cannot be
placed and then play conservatively to make sure that
one wins if only by a point or two.

I am not convinced that Cathedral is not a draw with
perfect play!

I was anticipating setting things up as we did the
Zertz+11 tournament in which everyone plays two games
per opponent once per side.  In this case one owuld
have to count wins as 1 and draws as 0.5.

Lyman

PS The current scripts identify tournament games as
(say) a12 if I (the first player) am player 1 in pool
a and you (the second player) are player 2.  Thus in
the situation described above we would be playing
games a12 and a21.  This worked quite well (keeping
the pool size manageable in that case 4).

--- jmw.vandijk@quicknet.nl wrote:
> 
> > 'Twas 02:21 PM -0700 on Saturday 9/6/2003 when
> Lyman Hurd wrote:
> > >Who knows, if I can get this resolved I may be
> fool
> > >enough to organize a Cathedral tournament to drum
> up
> > >more interest in that game!
> > 
> > I'll play, but Cathedral is another game which
> could use more server 
> > support.  The server does not currently implement
> Cathedral as it is 
> > competitively scored.  Cathedral is played in
> pairs of games, with the 
> > scores of the two games added together.
> 
> Oke it looks like mr Bart proposed an other option
> to challenge.
> cathedral chall jeroen bart --pair 
>                 --totaltime=365 
>                 --nagtime=7 
>                 --forfeittime=21
> 
> And for the boardnumbering I would like to propose a
> letter a the end 
> of it. So you would have 111a and 111b. 
> 
> And if still at it I like to propose or wish for 
> BG chall jeroen sydney -points=7
> 
> For a 7 point backgammon game as played now in a
> tournament. 
> But that would be a upgrade only in backgammon.cpp
> or not?
> And it would then go for whole backgammon family?
> 
> 
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