Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 19:02:40 04/28/00
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On April 28, 2000 at 19:52:53, Michael Cummings wrote: >On April 28, 2000 at 12:24:51, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On April 28, 2000 at 07:11:42, Michael Cummings wrote: >> >>>When you hold a world championship in anything, your main goal should be to >>>first try and get the best in world for the given championship. If I was running >> >>I don't think that's clear. I looked up the word "champion" last night and all >>it said was [basically] "a person who wins a competition." Nothing about being >>the best. > >But this is a World Championship. And Championship means a gathering of the best >in their field to compete to see who is the best. Yes the Champion is the person >who win a contest, but thats not the word you should be looking for. >Championship. > >There was also another term for Championship, which states, a gathering of >person whp compete in a chosen fieild to find the winner. > >The above is very different from the first definition I found. > >But that aside, when you play anything that has the word "World" in it, and >"championship" it is pretty logical that you are trying to find the champion of >the world. > >The arguement is, do you get the correct one, or even close to the correct one. >I think a line has to be drawn if in say a feild of 20, only 5 of the top 20 >even bother to show up, and the other 15 is just made of of fodder. I think at >some point you cannot use the words, "World Champion" > >Maybe they could change it to "2000 Computer Chess Tournament" That way with a >few word changes you would get the "2000 Computer Chess Tournament Champion" > >At least in most world Championships people or teams get some help in getting >there, and most usually have to qualify to even get the chance, allot miss out. >Not like this where someone just creates it and tried to drag people along. > >I think like we had with Cricket, it has got to a point where you no longer have >the right to use that name. > >Then what is stopping the Dutch Computer Chess Championship calling theirs the >World Championship. They have no better or worse entrants each year. ICCA and FIDE made an arrangement. FIDE does human chess, ICCA does computer chess. You can make your own organization if you want, but ICCA has the most claim on holding a valid championship event. Your 5 out of 20 argument overdoes it. Usually there are a few missing, but there are a lot more than 5 out of the 20 best there. If the ICCA holds a championship tournament, and you don't show up, you can't be champion. I don't see why this is particularly controversial. bruce
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