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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