Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 14:21:58 07/06/04
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On July 06, 2004 at 17:19:23, James T. Walker wrote: >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 Jimmy, just ask Bob and you know that I'm correct with my 5 round optimum.
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