Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:55:39 01/30/04
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On January 30, 2004 at 02:37:44, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 29, 2004 at 09:32:25, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>The ICGA offered to fly one of their members to the guys house to look at his >>source on his computer! This would have taken 1 hour of his time at most. This >>is what makes me think List is a clone. Fritz Reul had a _trivial_ way to clear >>himself of all suspicion. Yet he didn't take it. The only possible >>explanations are that List is a clone, or that he just didn't care if the entire >>world thought he copied crafty, or both. > >I think you're assuming that because you wouldn't have had a problem with it, >that he shouldn't either, but everyone is different. > >If the ICGA came calling my brother for a meeting the night before one of his >high school football games, my dad would tell them that it would have to wait >until after the game. Priorities are different for each person and family. > >I don't know about you, but I've certainly had some classes that consumed just >about every spare second I had. Some weeks 1 hour would be the difference >between making an A on my homework or an F. > >Maybe school is more important to him than computer chess. Maybe he didn't want >to bother with this kind of distraction before an exam. I got the impression >that he lives with his parents. Maybe his parents said no to the code inspection >visit. Maybe his parents see school as a very serious priority, while this silly >computer chess hobby of their son's is on the same level as playing Playstation >2. Who knows? I don't think any of this implies guilt. > >I also don't see what's wrong with him not caring what other people think. Maybe >he's not insecure about the situation. Maybe he's sitting back having a good >laugh at all of our speculation :) I think that it was a mistake to allow list to participate in the first place. clone or not clone is not the question. The rules say that the author has to be there. Fritz Reul was not there so the right decision was to cancel List before the first round. Uri
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