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Subject: Re: I disagree

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 04:09:38 12/30/03

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On December 30, 2003 at 06:26:53, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 30, 2003 at 05:38:21, Frank Phillips wrote:
>
>>On December 30, 2003 at 02:24:50, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Shredder was _given_ the win by improper behavior,
>>>>when a bad programming bug should have knocked it out of the title.  If Sandro
>>>>is proud of that kind of title, so be it...
>>>
>>>I am proud of this title as we play some very good games.
>>>
>>>How many WCCC titles did you win? I won 4 and you?
>>>
>>
>>This clarifies a few things.  I thought the title was given to the program that
>>won (fairly) most games, not the program that played best, or people thought
>>should have won, or was given wins by its opponents......
>>
>>BTW I was cheering for Steffan's program at the last WCCC; and was very
>>disappointed, emotionally, when it drew the last game due to a bug.
>>
>>(BTW Which four titles did you win?).

1995
2000
2001 on single processor.
2003

>
>I also prefered Shredder and not Fritz before the bug.
>I agree that Fritz deserved to be the champion but Shredder is the champion.
>

You are one of the few that believes that. I respect your opinion. R. Hyatt does
not respect the other people opinion if different from his opinion.
Stangely enough he is American...from the country of the freedom...

>I have one correction to make.
>Shredder did not drew the last game but won it inspite of the bug because of a
>wrong decision.
>
>It is the same as football.
>
>After the game is finished the winner team is the winner even if it can be
>proved that the decision to give them the win was wrong.
>
>The decision could be corrected before the playoff between shredder and Fritz
>but after the play off it is too late to correct it.
>
>I do not think that winning the world championship is the most important thing
>in the world so

Did I say the opposite?

>I think that it could be better for Stefan to admit that Fritz
>is the champion before the playoff and to refuse to play the playoff for the
>title(if spectators are interested in a playoff of 2 games then no problem but
>the playoff should not decide the title).

I do not agree as what happened before was allowed. You can think otherwise, it
is your problem.
If Fritz deserved the title should have won the playoff.
Last year Junior won the playoff and deserved the title.

>
>I can say for stefan that I believe that most people will behave like him and
>refuse to do the right thing and I do not expect to see a football team claim
>that the opponent won an elimination game and refuse to continue after 90
>minutes another 30 minutes because they are sure that they got 0-0 result only
>thanks to a wrong decision of the judge when they do not deserve it because it
>should be 1-0 for the opponent and the judge was wrong when he canceled the 1-0
>that was exactly in the last few seconds of the game so they had no time to try
>to equalize to 1-1.
>
>Uri

Sandro



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