Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:15:46 09/14/00
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On September 14, 2000 at 07:44:42, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On September 14, 2000 at 01:46:31, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On September 13, 2000 at 23:29:49, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>Something I find confusing about this group is that there are a zillion >>>tournaments going on at all times, and if you look at the post titles, it's hard >>>to know if they are tournaments involving computers competing at some site with >>>their authors consent, human tournaments, or championships of someone's >>>basement. >>> >>>As far as I can tell, this is the championship of your basement, right? >> >>It's the *OFFICIAL* world championship of my basement. > >:):):) > >> Actually, I think it is >>far more relevant than any of those ICCA thingies. They run so few games that >>the winner is almost a pure crap-shoot. > >Well, maybe not necessarily crap, but it may happen easily. > >I think we can trust the Elo list of FIDE, which counts hundreds of games of >each player, much better than the "world championship" of Las Vegas. A ranking >of 1.Kasparov, 2.Anand, 3.Kramnik, 4.Shirov, etc., makes more sense to me than >1.Khalifman, 2. Nisipeanu, etc. For the same reason Not for the same reason. 1)Kasparov did not play in the fide championchip 2)The system in las vegas was cruel system and players who get 1 out of 2 and lose in fast games cannot continue. I think that kasparov have better chances to win in a 9 rounds swiss championship and not in the Fide system. , I trust the SSDF list much >better than the WCCC. > >Junior 4.6 won a WCCC, but I would bet for Rebel 8 any time if both had to play >in the same long tournament. Wouldn't you? Same for Shredder 4 and Fritz 6. Shredder4 and the new Fritz6 did not play in the same tournament in WCCC. I agree that Fritz WCCC(parallel) is better because of better hardware if you play a lot of games but I believe that Shredder did not win 1999 WCCC because of luck but because of better opening preperation because the programmer knew to give it an opening book that leaded it for a position that Fritz does not understand in the game between Fritz and Shredder. Uri
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