Another Viktor
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These skills are not binary "you either have them or you don't" type skills. A SEAL might know all of the skills a UFC champ knows plus more, but that doesn't mean he is *as proficient* in those skills as the UFC champ is.
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So we "have" to choose how probable it is that they are generally equally skillful, or who is more likely to be skillful. In the absence of any kind of hard information, and in the presence of only some WWF-like posturing, I chose equally likely. (And, remember, we're supposed to be assessing the line for skills about a fight to the death.) I also said that if it can be shown that the UFC man is more likely, then [shrug] no sweat, he gets the nod.
You are putting down my "binary" notions, but you should realize that in this kind of general, abstract quest we can going around in circles for ages. It's not as if we had specific persons ready to rumble. Therefore, I chose to generalize and simplify, because the premises are already way too general and simplistic.
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Victor Kramnik...Go...
[/ QUOTE ] During his preparation for the Manila match against Korchnoi, Anatoly Karpov and his team would relax by taking walks or playing pool. Karpov was introduced to the Asian game of Go, by his seconds, as a diversionary game of relaxation, but they had to abandon that practice quickly, because the unfailingly competitive and analytical Karpov was immediately all over his new discovery, deep in examination and brain cell burning.
Mickey Brausch
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