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Subject: Re: Anand FIDE World Champion: Anand-Shirov 3,5-0,5

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:29:58 12/24/00

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On December 24, 2000 at 13:11:49, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On December 24, 2000 at 09:09:27, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>My congratulations to Vishy Anand, for winning the
>>FIDE World Championship 2000!
>>
>>3,5-0,5 in the final against Shirov, that leaves no
>>discussion whatsoever. Anand was the best, remained
>>unbeaten and scored a clear victory in the final.
>>Well done!
>>
>>Jeroen
>
>
>I am still absolutely amazed that a World Championship can be decided this way.
>
>A score of 3.5-0.5 is not statistically significant, not even with a low
>confidence.
>
>It is now clear, at least amongst the experienced computers chess operators,
>that such a result means NOTHING.

NONSENCE, if Shirov would have been the winner you would have made all types of
nice comments and congratulations. You are forgetting that Anand has been one of
the top contender for the World Title for the longest and deserve to be the FIDE
Champion better than anybody else. Once a system for the Championship is chosen,
and all the participants agree to play under that system, there should not be
any excuses. IF FIDE decides to change how the next World Championship
Title should be disputed; I will still favor Anand to coninue being the FIDE
Champion for the next 5 years.

Pichard.

>
>I think that the computer chess community is on some topics much more advanced
>than the human chess community. For example the human chess community has
>adopted the ELO rating system, but still ignores most of the basic rules of this
>system (margin of error, level of confidence). The computer chess community is
>aware of these rules, and you can find these parameters published in the SSDF
>rating list for example.
>
>
>
>    Christophe



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