[blml] Thai braking [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Herman De Wael]

Steve Willner wrote:
>> Well, the NS and EW IMPS do add up to zero, all together (of course), 
>> so I don't see this particularly as a problem.
> 
> Not good enough.  You get random IMPs depending on whether you are
> seated NS or EW on a given board.  This has nothing to do with
> movements.  Of course _on average_ the random IMPs are zero, but
> they add noise.  That's OK for a club game or something but not
> for a serious event.  Compare my analogy of rolling a die and
> adding that many IMPs to your score.
> 

Every method has noise. And don't say that the noise in this method is 
independent of the results, because that is simply not true.
Anyway, this discussion is futile.

> Cheers.
> 
> 


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