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Subject: Re: Copying Crafty... Issues?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:32:14 02/17/99

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On February 17, 1999 at 09:29:09, Dan Homan wrote:

>I agree, I think that honesty is the key.
>
>The only place I differ with you is tournaments.  I think that big
>tournaments (such as the Dutch Open, WMCCC, etc...) which require original
>author participation should have only one version of crafty (or
>any other program, for that matter) allowed.
>
>Modified versions (as long as they are clearly labeled as such) should
>be fine for most kinds of private tournaments, ICS play, and testing.

There may be some confusion about what a tournament is.

Some guy running a bunch of programs against each other is not a tournament in
the sense that you mean, but it might be in the sense that Fernando means.

If you're running a bunch of programs that you own against each other in your
basement, no big deal.

But it's a matter of making an application to be in a tournament open to authors
only, such as an ICCA tournament or a national championship or the IPCC (yearly
Paderborn tournament), then these things should be totally banned.

bruce



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