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Subject: Re: suggestion for a rule for exposing source code in world championship

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 08:56:43 02/29/04

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On February 29, 2004 at 05:47:39, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On February 27, 2004 at 22:44:46, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>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
>
>What you're saying he said isn't really what he said.

True, it is not *exactly* the same...but either way, he is declining to show the
source code. I was addressing this statement:

"If, after five years of publicity, you say "no way", everybody would assume you
cheated and that means the rest of your life of negative publicity. That would
prove fatal if you were a young programmer trying to get a name in the
profession."

The problem with this statement is that in this case there is no accusation of
cheating, so declining to show your source code is not really an indication of
cheating. Of course, it is more likely that no one with code worth seeing would
enter such an event, aside from one professor from Alabama :)



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