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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:06:36 02/29/04

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On February 29, 2004 at 11:56:43, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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 :)

5 years is a long time to improve the program so I am not sure.
The only way to check is to try.

Uri



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