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Subject: Re: CCT4 Tao/Quark

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 05:02:20 01/27/02

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On January 27, 2002 at 07:42:27, José Carlos wrote:

>
>  I don't find it surprising, nor wrong. In "human" chess, we don't need
>thousands of games to pick a world champion, and most people is okay with that.
>In basketball, in soccer, tennis or golf, the champions are not statistically
>the best, but it doesn't matter because success is success anyway.
>  It's only a matter of "point of view"; chess as science or chess as sport. I
>like both points of view.
>  Quark was lucky against Monsoon. Well, that's sport. Fine for me.
>  Congratulations Thomas, no matter what happens today.
>
>  José C.

I agree with you in the distinction of sport and science. I like soccer as well,
and I have always thought that the important tournaments should have more games
to make it more statistically significant. Specifically such as thing as the
world championship or the european championship is a joke statistically.

Anyway, most people here in CCC usually don't draw conclusions unless they have
a lot of games to back it up. That's all. Statistics or not, it is still a
remarkable achievement, yesterdays games for Quark.

/David



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