Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:46:50 08/20/01
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On August 20, 2001 at 18:32:27, Christophe Theron wrote: [snip] >It's probably because I'm planning to make some extremely outrageous claims if I >win some title this year. :) That's the whole purpose of the contests, after all. In fact, there is a long and glorious tradition of outrageous claims associated with such contests. Consider baseball. The winner of the US "World Series" is pronounced 'World Champion' -- without having played against the Japanese teams. (Baseball superlatives are always like that -- Hammerin' Hank is the best home run hitter of ALL TIME! Just don't tell Sadaharu Oh or Josh Gibson (who *often* hit 80 in one year)). Look at the Superbowl. One single game proclaims "WORLD CHAMPION" followed by Ticker-Tape parades, meeting the president of the US, etc. Quite frankly, these short series contests have NO PURPOSE besides proclaiming a "Official" world champion. I don't think it's a bad thing at all. It does provide useful data, after all. You're not going to win it with a bad program. Combined with SSDF data and other things of that nature, we can make reasonable extrapolations about the strength of programs. I'll work up a slogan for you, in advance: "Chess Tiger, the world's most powerful chess program and official ICCA world championship #1 program for the universe has demonstrated its mastery once again. Not satisfied with heading the SSDF list (too boring) or winning various other championship titles [ho-humm...], Chess Tiger has bitten the heads off of all opposers and fed them to its cute little cubs in the den. If you want the world's strongest chess program (which Kasparov is rumored to be in dreaded fear of) you must RUSH to buy it RIGHT NOW!! And that's an order." That would look pretty nice on the box, I think. And it would be no less remarkable than other, similar claims that I have seen. ;-)
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