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Subject: Re: Why Shredder is not playing...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:58:10 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 13:47:23, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 18, 2001 at 13:35:44, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>On April 18, 2001 at 11:43:01, Amir Ban wrote:
>>
>>>We all got the same draft agreement at the same time, and more or less saw the
>>>same problems in the terms (I think I saw some you missed), but, instead of
>>>sending an angry "I'm out!" letter like Ossi Weiner, we negotiated. We talked to
>>>the organizers. We told them what we cannot accept, and they told us their
>>>constraints, and we reached terms that we can live with. They address your
>>>objections, which as I said were similar to ours, and I think the revised terms
>>>were even posted here by Bertil.
>>
>>The differences between the original arrangement sketched by SMK and the revised
>>edition posted here by Bertil Eklund are not very significant.
>
>I did not see a revised edition posted here by Bertil.
>
>My opinion is that the main problem is the fact that kramnik is going to get a
>copy of the program that is playing 3 monthes before the match.

I looked at old posts of Bertil(not from the l;ast 36 hours) and found the
following sentence:

"Programmers are free to develop their engines until October 1st, provided
that they will send regular updates to Kramnik."

I guess that the first decision was that they are not free to develop their
engines but I still do not see it as a big change because the main problem is
the fact that kramnik is going to get a copy of the program.

I totally dislike it because programs cannot get a copy of humans.

If kramnik cannot beat the program when he gets only games of the programs then
it simply mean that kramnik is weaker then the program.

I did notice that it is a revised edition because I was angry about the unfair
conditions and thought that these unfair conditions can be  decided only as
original edition and not as revised edition.

Uri



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