Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 17:19:46 11/27/03
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On November 27, 2003 at 19:59:39, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >On November 27, 2003 at 19:33:34, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On November 27, 2003 at 19:15:40, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >> >>>BTW, would you be willing to make your source code available to inspection by >>>the ICGA officials in case someone came claiming Junior is a Crafty clone >>>without any proof ? >>> >>>Uli >> >>I would have said "no case to answer", but I would not fail to return emails or >>phone calls. >> >>Amir > > >Let's take counterfactual reality a bit further. The Committee would have then >gotten your email with the message "no case to answer" and the phone >conversation would have conveyed the same message to the esteemed group >"Gentlemen, I can't tell you much more: there is no connection whatsoever >between my program and program X". If I got things right, they actually got as >much from Fritz Reul in their first and only phone conversation -- so much can >be gathered at the CB site. Fritz then left home to sit for a math exam... > >Conclusion to be drawn: you would have been disqualified and banned by the >Committee, just like Fritz Reul and List because you did not let the board >examine your program code. I don't think that you would have liked that, being >disqualified without any substantial evidence against you. They admit to having >only "circumstantial evidence" though. Do you consider that sufficient to >disqualify and ban an author and his program, and is this perhaps a dangerous >way of opening the flood gates for future complaints based on suspicion, >speculation and whatnot, without any substantial evidence? To be fair: we don't know what kind of evidence they may have. I hope that this will be made public soon. According to all what I know about List (I had exchanged a few emails with the author and I have played List a lot) it seems more than unlikely to me that there is a relation to Crafty. Uli > >Djordje
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