Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:25:07 08/20/01
Go up one level in this thread
On August 20, 2001 at 18:46:50, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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.
>;-)
:)
Christophe
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.