Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:20:59 02/19/00
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On February 19, 2000 at 11:52:35, Thorsten Czub wrote: [snip] > >>It's all part of the game. No excuses. Just results. "Why" does not matter. The >>why is extremely interesting (and yes, it is often fun to read about it), but >>irrelevant. The what (i.e. the result) is the relevant piece. > >WHY does not matter ? >ahem. >i guess we will never agree about this. >the why is never irrelevant. it is the main question. >anywhere, anytime. the target, the destination is not interesting. >not important. it is the way to it. >thats life. life is NOT to win. life is about to go. >about the how and why. the result is unimportant IMO. > >sorry. different point of views. > That's fine. My point is only that the results are what are recorded. Fischer was FIDE world champion (what). He declined to play FIDE championship matches (why). Karpov became the FIDE world champion (what). Kasparov was FIDE world champion (what). He declines to play FIDE championship matches (why). Khalifman is now FIDE world champion (what). The "why" IS important for a variety of reasons as you pointed out (I was being a little too disparaging of it in my last message). But, it is only a reason (or a series of reasons). It is not the outcome. People who ignore the outcome and look for reasons why the outcome was not some other outcome often come up with excuses. That is what bothers me. If the outcome had been something else, then a series of different people would be looking at the reasons why the outcome was not the first outcome. The "how and why" as you state ALSO applies to the winner as well as the losers. People tend to forget the vast effort put in by the winners and focus on some piddling reason why the losers didn't win. Hogwash. All part of the game in computer chess, just like in human chess, just like in real life. KarinsDad :)
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