Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:01:14 06/05/98
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On June 04, 1998 at 23:46:57, Komputer Korner wrote: >May I remind everyone that I always said the title of world >professional/commercial champion was a fraudulent title. There should >only be one title and that is World Computer Chess Champion. But this is too strong. When you say fraudulent, you imply that someone is committing fraud. The ICCA isn't a big organization, exactly which of the officers are you accusing of commiting fraud, and exactly who are they defrauding and how? The title itself isn't a fraud. Maybe it's a mistake or a bad idea or obsolete, but it isn't a fraud. OK. There is the world microcomputer title. But for years the tournament was held with a few strong professionals and a bunch of weak amateurs. So they made an amateur title so the amateurs could have some reason to go to the tournament, sort of a consolation prize. I'm not sure why the professional title exists, since the professional entries are supposed to win the whole thing. Perhaps it is sort of an emergency backup title in case an amateur wins -- the professionals pay the big entry fee so they should be able to have a good chance of getting something out of it. For whatever reason, the title exists and has a name, and that name is the name that should be used in advertisements. To do otherwise is the same as putting "gold medalist" on your box, when you really won the bronze medal, just because both medals are kind of gold colored. bruce
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