Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 12:20:37 02/17/99
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On February 17, 1999 at 13:32:14, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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. Of course by definition, but this only changes the place of the problem. Instead of wondering what a program should be to be considered a program by itself, now the question would be what a guy should be to be considered an author. If Bionic is different -yhe old discussion- his fathers are "authors". If not, the are not. So we arrive at the same point. So we need even more rules whcih will carry new boundaries to be defined at nauseaum. Perhaps some kind of torumament for second generation authors should be invented :-) fernando > >bruce
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