Author: Alvaro Polo
Date: 01:25:56 02/11/00
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On February 10, 2000 at 23:34:10, KarinsDad wrote: >On February 10, 2000 at 22:35:08, stuart taylor wrote: > >[snip] >> >> Dosen't world champion mean best player? Atleast isn't that what such a >>grandmaster(or any person) would be meaning to infer? >> S.Taylor. > >So would the world champion bass fisherman be the man who uses a line or the man >who uses a 50 foot net? > >When you compare apples and oranges, you cannot get a straight answer. > >There is nothing wrong with having a Human Only Championship, a Human-Machine >Championship, a Machine Only Championship, and a Human/Machine - Human/Machine >hybrid (i.e. advanced chess) Championship. > >It's when people one day declare that a computer is world chess champion that I >wonder what they are thinking. We do not state that a motorcycle is the world >sprinting champion. There is nothing wrong with having different types of >championships, but the World Chess Championship implies a human endeavor without >over the board assistance (to me). A motorcycle uses a pilot. A computer uses an operator. There is a big difference. I believe that motorcycles companies say that they are world champion, as a publicity trick, although it is not correct. Alvaro > >KarinsDad :)
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