Author: Uri Blass
Date: 16:56:54 02/27/04
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On February 27, 2004 at 18:23:14, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 27, 2004 at 08:46:16, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I think that the following rule should be a good rule for world championships. >> >>Every programmer who participate in the computer world championship has to >>expose the source code of the program 5 years after the event. >> >>It can be good for the following purposes: >> >>1)Preventing clones and at least clones will be exposed after 5 years. >>2)progress in computer chess because people will have access to more >>information. >> >>I suggest 5 years because I believe that if we decide about short time then it >>may prevent the participation of commercial programs when in case that the code >>is exposed only after 5 years then 5 years is enough time to make a significant >>improvement in the program so good programmers can continue to earn money from >>selling chess programs and participate in the world championship. >> >> >> >> >>I think that commercial secrets that are kept forever is a bad thing and it is >>better to have a world when it is not allowed to have commercial secrets for >>more than 5 years. >> >>commercial secrets for a limited time are needed(otherwise people will have less >>motivation to do things) but commercial secrets for unlimited time are bad for >>progress because people have less information to learn from. > >The commercial engines will never expose their source code, period. > >If the ICCA proposed such a rule, they would scrap the ICCA and create their own >organization. > >I don't think that the commercial programs have any great magic. It is just >that the authors of commercial engines can spend a lot more time on it. > >Ed has explained in detail how his program works. But we don't suddenly see >amateur programs gaining Rebel strength. That's because the devil is in the >details. 1)Ed did not explain everything and he admitted that there are things that he did not explain because they are ideas of christophe. 2)There are a lot of free programs that are only slightly weaker than Rebel. 3)I do not assume that they spend more time on it. I know that at least Amir ban has a full time job not in chess programming and the same is probably the case for part of the other commercial programmers. Uri
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