Author: Harald Faber
Date: 01:36:07 06/22/02
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On June 21, 2002 at 13:47:02, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >Hi, > >>Still an ignorant dreamer. Those are not just 3 programs, they are co-favourites >>with chances to win. > >For me are all programs important. I know. >So for me is not very important which programs are playing, more important is >that many programs playing and the programmers have fun. OK, then let us call the wch "fun tournament"? The definition of World Championship is different. >>Even if they'd participate, they'd have no chance to WIN and I would cut my hair >>1mm long in case one of them would win. > >Big Nonsens ! >Do you know Chess Wizard, Nightmare or other programs ? > >A program which are playing with ~ 2.500 - 2.550 (if Fritz is playing with >2.650) have "normaly" a chance to win of ~ 20%. A good exemple are my 20 >tournaments "Amateurs vs. Professionals". Goliath won 2 of 20 tournaments. Cool, eh? How many World Championships did they play? And how did they finish? >>Tiger, yes. ;-) >You are a Tiger fan? Open secret. :) >>Seriously: Imagine a soccer wch without Argentina, Brasil, England, Ireland, >>Italy, Cameroon. Does not mater because there are dozens of other countries >>playing for the title?? You must be joking. > >Other countrys can also playing good football. >Like "Mali", "Ghana" ... Mali is very very strong. Yes, so strong that it wasn't able to qualify for the wch... >Now the German "Banana team" is under the last 4 teams, I cann't know this. >Today the American player are clear better and we see the typical German >football :-( > >But the American players are the moral winner of this game not the German team. > >Best >Frank Who cares? May I quote our ex-cancellor Helmut Kohl: "Entscheidend ist, was hinten rauskommt." (It is the result that counts) There are MANY countries, like Italy, like Argentina e.g., who would CELEBRATE reaching the 1/2 final, no matter HOW. Only the Germans, or at least the German media, have problems with this attitude. Winning is not enough, winning superior is important. Bullshit. I (and many others too) prefer reaching the smei-final instead of dropping out of the tournament but having played attractively. "Moral winner", that is a loser's excuse.
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