Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 19:44:46 02/27/04
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On February 27, 2004 at 19:47:43, Uri Blass wrote: >Yes >If you promise to reveal your source code and you do not do it you are probably >a cheater. Amir Ban has already said that he would not show the Junior source code if the ICGA asked him to. http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=331244 Do you think that makes him or Shay "probably a cheater"? I don't. If they asked Frans Morsche, or Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, or Amir Ban, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, or any other commercial participant to show their source code, and they refused because of the contracts they have with their employer (Chessbase, Lokasoft, etc.), then would you say any of them are "probably a cheater"? I wouldn't. The problem is that there is an unwritten rule that the written rules aren't really enforced. If they actually enforced the rules and made you prove that your program is entirely your own work, I bet none of the commercial participants would show up. They would probably start the Chessbase World Championship or something. The point is, there are plenty of good and acceptable reasons for not showing your source code, and refusing to do so by itself is not enough to declare someone "probably a cheater". If, on the other hand, there is solid evidence that needs to be explained by the author, that is another situation.
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