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Subject: Re: (Off Top)Leko Beats Khalifman 4.5 to 1.5 by winning game 6(Poor Khalif)

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 21:58:33 01/10/00

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On January 10, 2000 at 18:15:30, Mark Young wrote:

>On January 10, 2000 at 04:10:18, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On January 09, 2000 at 11:23:11, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>On January 09, 2000 at 10:57:40, Charles Unruh wrote:
>>>
>>>>(Off Top)Leko Beats Khalifman 4.5 to 1.5 by winning game 6(Poor Khalifman)
>>>
>>>This shows the folly of crowning a World Champion with just one short
>>>tournament....hello Shredder.
>>
>>So what would you suggest for programs? also candidate matches and so on as
>>there have been for humans? Nice idea. :-)
>>
>>BTW Shredder *4* has already proved its strength!
>
>Yes it has, and it is not the strongest program. World Champion yes, but not the
>strongest, as with Khalifman. It's to bad the Title World Champion has lost its
>meaning in chess.

I disagree. World Champion, who is called so or should be called so? The one who
wins the World Championship, right? I do not see any word that says the World
Champion MUST be the strongest player. There are many kinds of sports where the
World Champion is NOT the rating list no.1.




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