Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 08:11:25 01/26/00
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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 Well said......its one thing to win a tournament labeled "World Championship" and quite another to be the worlds best Chess program. Right now the best measure we have is SSDF. Although it has its flaws there is no better measure for a Program to claim I'm #1! TP
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