Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:20:37 10/16/97
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On October 16, 1997 at 15:30:34, Steven Schwartz wrote: >I know that every year we promote "The Winner of This Tournament" and >"The Winner of That Tournament". > >It is great for selling programs, but what does it REALLY mean? > >Most of these tournaments are 6 rounds or 8 round or 10 rounds, and the >results, although of interest, really do not tell us anything except >Program #1 was luckier than Program #2 in this particular tournament. > >Ed decided that this process was not for him. I, personally, give him >credit for his decision. There is no reason to give him credit or to take credit away. Going to tournaments is simply something that some folks want to do and some folks don't want to do, and he doesn't want to do it anymore. I like going to the tournaments because I like seeing my friends, I like the competition, and I like the interesting locales. I took my son to Holland for Aegon (Holland is a fine place, but I wouldn't have had a good enough excuse to go there at this time otherwise), and now he knows all about wind mills, Martin Zentner, and Italian ketchup. I don't care if the events are statistically significant, it is still exciting to compete. There are lots of events where they spend a huge amount of gathering information about who is best, then use this wonderful information to seed a tournament where anything can happen. bruce
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