Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:37:45 04/19/01
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On April 18, 2001 at 16:24:14, Mike S. wrote: >On April 18, 2001 at 13:35:44, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>That is a very commendable attitude, but as a wildcard entry you didn't have >>anything to lose. So the laissez-faire attitude is somewhat free IMO. > >Until now, I had the impression that you are a person who writes reasonable, and >sometimes quite humorous IIRC, messages. > >Did you now call Deep Junior a "wildcard entry"? What is this based upon? > >I can imagine that you wouldn't call Deep Shredder a wildcard entry - me >neither. But who has played so far, and won, an event of a comparable size and >importance to that Braingames aim for? *Deep Blue* only did this when it beat >Kasparov. > >People should start to realise the dimension of what is planned here. > >Keeping the conditions in mind which were told to us, Deep Junior fully deserves >to participate in this qualifying. Who doubts this? It isn't an act of grace to >invite it, this happened in view of it's rank among chess programs, it's >strength and of the successes it already has had against human masters, >obviously. It doesn't depend on a "wildcard". > >I think this kind of talk isn't necessary. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl The term "wild card" is entirely appropriate. It means "someone made it to the playoffs outside the normal methodology". In this case, the _only_ program that should have been considered was simply shredder. Including any other program would definitely grant that program "wild-card" status. Junior and Fritz had two recent opportunities to dethrone shredder. They failed both times... This is a sort of dethroning through the back door...
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