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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 18:36:30 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:

Well it's trivial no one will ever ask Amir, because it's trivial he has created
Junior together with Shay.

However if you show up you better take source code with you, no one is believing
your capabilities there.

>"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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