Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:02:01 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 08:26:42, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 26, 2000 at 07:45:02, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>On January 26, 2000 at 07:17:05, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>About being "World champion, the rest is details", it's a classic case of >>>hypostatization, which is "to attribute real identity to a concept." >>> >>>1. We create a Swiss tournament of 11 rounds and name it World Championship. >>>2. Program X wins the tournament and becomes World Champion. >>>3. We are to believe that program X is the best because it is the World Champion >>>and the rest is details. >>> >>>If this 11 round tournament would have given another name, for instance ICCA >>>championship, steps 2 and 3 wouldn't cross anybody's mind. >>> >>>With this I don't intend to attack Shredder 4, Junior 4.6 or Fritz 3, all fine >>>programs and none of them the best, but to question the meaning of a name. >>> >>>No human would become world champion after playing a total of 11 games in his >>>life, and I don't think programs should either. >>> >>>Enrique >> >>Would you knock off the Champions League? It's the same system and generally >>accepted. The one who wins is the strongest. > >Therefore Junior 4.6 was the strongest, and you know it wasn't. > >You can't compare chess and football, for the same reason that you can't compare >apples and oranges. But if you want to stick to your analogy, imagine a >Champions League consisting of 5 minute games. > >Imagine also that FIDE organizes a World Championship in the form of a Swiss >tournament of 11 rounds. Whould you consider the winner as World Champion? The >Las Vegas thing crowned Khalifman as World Champion. Who believes in it? >Kasparov is World Champion after winning many matches of all sort and an >extraordinary career. We all believe he is the World Champion. > >Enrique > >>Ed Sorry Enrique but I for one don't believe G. Kasparov is World Champion any more than Bobby Fischer is World Champion. I believe GK is the strongest player in the World but he is not World Champion in my mind. Fischer lost his title by refusing to compete. Why is this different for GK? The title or Championship is won in any sport/game by competing for it and luck may play a part and the best may not always win but the winner is always champion. Jim Walker
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