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Tradition of odd length bg matches

Posted By: Colin Owen
Date: Monday, 8 June 2015, at 9:58 p.m.

In Response To: Tradition of odd length bg matches (Tom Keith)

Whether or not we think that organisers should have the option to fine tune the average length of a round by, for example, playing to 4 points rather than 3 or 5, the variance that exists in the length of all bg matches is a totally separate issue. However matches are constructed, variance is inescapable, but could it be that it would be reduced if matches were a fixed number of games?

It might not be a bad rule to force an immediate double-take at 2a 2a, but I guess we should just continue to let things play out.

Thanks for the link, Tom, but that wasn't the table. Someone posted a table, from a simulation, with the mean number of games to complete the match, from all scores up to about 11a.

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