Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:02:38 04/17/01
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On April 17, 2001 at 05:02:08, stuart taylor wrote:
>But everyone here is continually saying, non-stop, day and night, that so few
>games have nothing in the world to do with which is the stronger program.
>
>And this is absoloutely unanimous on this board!
So what? The last human Absolute World Championship was decided in 15 games (the
16th was symbolic). Not very significant statistically perhaps, but even the
loser, still rated number 1 in the world, denies the legitimacy of the title.
Furthermore, Shredder didn't do it once. Nor did it do it twice. It has come
consistently with INFERIOR hardware again and again, and has come on top every
single time. Not only has it beaten it's cyber peers and against humans it has
done VERY well. Barring human errors, how did it do in the Israeli League? Fritz
had a couple of embarassing moments in the same competition as I recall. No
disrespect meant to the great Fritz, but I see no reason for Shredder to suffer
disrespect either.
Albert
>
>Only I suggested an idea how all programs can play each other in a championship
>in a way that it would be much more effective in relatively few games, and the
>best reply I got was that ssdf is for those things, and the championship(s) are
>just purely for entertainment.
>
>Again, no objections! So why should a program which everyone agrees to be
>relatively weak, be the one to be considered most challenging for Kramnik?
>
>S.Taylor
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