Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 05:24:04 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 08:02:13, Uri Blass wrote: >Sos is not amatuer because chessbase sells it for money. > >I do not understand the reason that it was declared to be the amatuer world >champion. >It is a mistake Hello Uri, I agree with you. The rules of ICCA were clear : "Professional": A program whose name is the same as or derived from a commercial product. (see http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~olympiad/rules.htm) As SOS is one of the programs of the CD Young Talents, which is a commercial product, I really don't understand how he could be "amateur" in this tournament! But maybe Mr Levy and Van den Herik thought that nobody would read the WMCC rules :-) I don't know if James Robertson made a protest? Best regards, Sylvain
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