Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 15:09:01 01/02/02
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On January 02, 2002 at 18:00:06, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 02, 2002 at 16:56:46, Dan Andersson wrote: > >>Fear of what? There are some issues here: >>The possibility of human intervention in this online tournament; > >Someone might cheat. That could happen at any tournament. But cheat with what? > Is Kasparov going to sit around and give advice? Against (for instance) >Shredder on a 1.x GHz machine, kabitzing is risky and stupid. If you are in >fear of that, then you are a true coward. Lame excuse negated. Come on Dann, there are excellent ways to cheat at an event like this. I could operate Sjeng as an advanced player, or worse, use Fritz 7 with slighly different settings instead. That would certainly boost my winning chances. >>Preparation for other events; > >Use the current engine and have someone else run it for you. No preparation or >even action is needed. Lame excuse negated. Huh. This comes from someone who has never prepared a tournament openings book I guess? >>A conflicting shedule... > >Well, you do have to give up 2 weekends. But you could surely find someone to >run the program for you (as others have done). Lame excuse negated. True. >Me too, but I doubt it. Look at companies who try to legally forbid the use of >any publication of the performance of their engines against any other engine >right on the box. These people are seething with fear. Hmm, are you thinking about anybody in particular here? -- GCP
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