Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 02:17:13 04/21/00
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On April 21, 2000 at 01:36:29, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On April 21, 2000 at 00:41:32, Mark Ryan wrote: > >>Disadvantage: Some programs (like Crafty) cannot attend. >>Advantage: ? >> >>Mark > >They don't, they just say they do. At the last WCCC, they said the author had >to be there, then they allowed some programs to compete without the author being >present. In a couple of other cases they invited a program to play sans author >in order to round out the field, which is different, of course. > >The reason the author is supposed to be there is that if participants are >allowed to mail in their programs, things are less interesting for the >participants who bother to show up. > >It's more fun to play across the table from the author of the program than it is >to play across the table from someone who didn't write the program, doesn't know >anything about it, and may not be able to understand the user interface. > >Some number of the teams got around the author rule by declaring beta testers to >be "authors" of some part of the program, which is bullshit, of course. > >bruce You forgot the worst case where both operatores couldn't speak in a common language, e.g. English, so there is silence for hours. Stefan
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