Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 04:45:02 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 07:17:05, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >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 Would you knock off the Champions League? It's the same system and generally accepted. The one who wins is the strongest. Ed
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