Author: James T. Walker
Date: 14:19:23 07/06/04
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On July 06, 2004 at 15:25:18, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On July 06, 2004 at 15:06:07, Franz Hagra wrote: > >>Last year in Graz: Buggy Shredder wins last round with the help of the operator! >>Then losing with a pawn up in the tiebreak game and now a bug and the end of the >>dreams of the Fritz team. >> >>Hagra > > >What has this to do with anything? FRITZ is state of the art exactly because it >must not win at championships. It's participating, yes, but it must not prove >anything at all. You can compare it with the EU soccer championship. Italy, >Germany, Holland, France, England are NOT suddenly second class teams!! Just >because they were satisfied with helping Czechia, Portugal and Greece to come >through. It's all about marketing, if you know what I mean. > >As long as almost all teams are playing with shoes from ADIDAS or PUMA and >shirts as well, all is in order. > >You know when the Soviet Icehockey team was almost unbeatable they lost a game >here or there, just to support their sport as such. And the World-wide >enthusiasm. > >This is called sports politics. > > >Here in this year's WCCC it is important to prove that such a 10 round race is a >neccessity! We are not through yet. Fritz will come back through wins over >weaker programs and then in the end everybody has seen that if the race had been >shorter, say 5 rounds, which would be sufficient IMO, that then Fritz wouldn't >have had a chance. This is what's it's all about... All IMO! Perhaps you would like to see a 1 round championship? If Fritz comes back to win this then maybe it only proves that Fritz was actually the strongest program. Or maybe it only proves that with many rounds you have time for the good luck and bad luck to equal out. Or maybe it's all luck and programming excellence is only a sidebar. Or maybe you believe the whole thing is just a conspiracy by Chessbase to prove the world is not really round. If you go too far to the left you will fall off the world. Jim
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