Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 04:17:05 01/26/00
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About being "World champion, the rest is details", it's a classic case of hypostatization, which is "to attribute real identity to a concept." 1. We create a Swiss tournament of 11 rounds and name it World Championship. 2. Program X wins the tournament and becomes World Champion. 3. We are to believe that program X is the best because it is the World Champion and the rest is details. If this 11 round tournament would have given another name, for instance ICCA championship, steps 2 and 3 wouldn't cross anybody's mind. With this I don't intend to attack Shredder 4, Junior 4.6 or Fritz 3, all fine programs and none of them the best, but to question the meaning of a name. No human would become world champion after playing a total of 11 games in his life, and I don't think programs should either. Enrique
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