Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:07:23 08/23/01
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On August 23, 2001 at 10:18:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >If crafty wins it's amateur world champion. > >crafty has 2 connected passers. opponent some threats against >the crafty king side. Both programs at this moment plan to >not sacrafice against crafty so it goes smooth for crafty, >the passers will run further now. > >Congratulations to Bob in case this scenario happens, as >i might not have enough time to do anything because i >go make a protest letter that it is not fair that some programs >make illegal usage of commercial books, like the gromit team might >do, though they deny. > >If their explanation is the case, then they definitely have the best >automatically generated book on earth. > >A win from Crafty against the Gromit team definitely prevents a >possible shadow over the amateur world title and would be a realistic >reward for the open source policy from Bob! > >Best regards, >Vincent Vincent: If you happen to talk with the ICCA folks, tell them that I would prefer that Crafty not be considered for any "amateur" title. I think this should go to entries that are newer and truly amateurs. I think they will understand since I have been competing at these events longer than _anybody_ that is present. Probably by a margin of 10 years unless there are people that were active prior to 1986 (My first event was an ACM event in 1976 in Houston, Texas). It seems more reasonable to not count me among the "amateurs" or "professionals". I would call myself "other" at present. :)
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