Author: Pham Hong Nguyen
Date: 17:02:07 12/01/03
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On December 01, 2003 at 19:35:15, Mike Byrne wrote: >You have 3 years to work on this: > >1. Improve the computer source challenge - challenges should be me made prior >to or after the tournament, but not during. If a challenge is made after the >tournament, then all of the disqualified contestant games should be stricken >from the official record as if they were never played. All contestants should >be advised of the dates that they must provide source prior to/ or after the >tournament so they can plan accordingly. There should be also a procedure to >ensure that the source provided is the one actually used by the contestants. >I'm sure something could be worked out. That is good. > >Alternatively, the all sources could be reviewed prior to the tournament by the >experts who have signed non-disclosure agreements and why not - if Fritz Ruel >has to provide his code - make everyone provide their code for inspection. I >seriously doubt that would pass. - Do you think top programmers agree to show their codes? I doubt that. Obviously they don't want anyone to look in (and may learn) their ideas or blame any thing, specially if their codes content few pieces of open source codes, e.g., a random function. I think they may boycott the tournament and create their own ones instead. Other idea is to invite them without requirement of showing codes, but that is not fair with others. - Suppose one new program says to public that it is a clone of Crafty. Thus, the requirement of reviewing this code becomes funny (what do you want to see?). > >2. Something has to be done about the draw rule - that game should have never >been allowed to continue. For 30 years, the correct rules were followed - this >year it was not - that is a disgrace. > >Other than that, it was a great tournament [cough, cough]. > >Seriously, whatever goodwill that the tournament generated was torpedo by these >two events that were mishandled. That is a shame.
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