Author: stuart taylor
Date: 05:05:17 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 07:45:02, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 World Chamion is what one produces. Strongest player is what one is. S.T.
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