Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 10:19:04 03/20/00
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On March 19, 2000 at 10:21:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >All good points... but you overlook one important aspect of 'cheating'. I >was personally involved in handling a dispute at an ACM event _many_ years ago, >where someone copied a commercial program, used a debugger to change most of >the strings inside it, and then tried to pass it off as their own program for >a microcomputer championship. IE it is probably impossible to prevent cheating, >and rumors of cheating. > This has more recently occurred in the computer Go arena. Within the last two years, there was a successful Korean program called Silver Igo entered in the world competitions. It played very similarly to a previous champion named Goemate (previously called Handtalk). The author made a binary comparison and found significant plagarism which he documented convincingly. As a result, the major computer Go events now have anti-plagarism rules. > >But no doubt there _are_ exceptions. We will continue to see Voyagers, >Le Petites, and others... Apparently so. Note that Handtalk was written in *assembly*. He couldn't have distributed source easily even if he wanted to, so that is not necessarily a deterent. Ian
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