Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 06:05:53 04/29/00
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On April 28, 2000 at 23:19:07, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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. > >I found this definition for championship from Merriam-Webster's web site: > >3 : a contest held to determine a champion > >and then for champion: > >4 : a winner of first prize or first place in competition; also : one who shows >marked superiority <a champion at selling> > >Hmmm. I guess these definitions (when considered together) are pretty stupid, if >you can find some better ones, go for it. > >-Tom okay so when you add world and championship, you are looking for a world champion. So when you hold a championship of the world you are looking for the best in the world. So I think this contest could be a chess championship, but certainly not enough good competitors to make it a world Championship.
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