Author: James T. Walker
Date: 15:30:43 07/06/04
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On July 06, 2004 at 17:21:58, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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. Well I think 10/11 rounds are too much but I would not complain about it. I also believe that the more rounds you have the better chance of the strongest program winning. In either case luck plays a part in it (good/bad). I guess you can stop it right now and give Junior the title but why not have some more fun? Jim
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