Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 11:42:54 08/23/01
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On August 23, 2001 at 14:36:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >Use of commercial books is old hat. You will find that quite a few amateur >programs use the fritz 4 book, and have done so openly for many years. Yes. This is the key issue. They did so openly. While I find it a very weird idea that you can be an amateur and use a professional book, lying about it is much worse. >If it is not spelled out as a rules violation, then it is not wrong to do so. Right and Wrong are not solely determined by written rules. >It probably *should* be specified one way or the other. I doubt that it has >been or the problem would not arise. I agree 100% here. >At any rate, an entertaining tournament as always. Shredder has once again >risen to the top, and certainly deserves every accolade. Darn. It almost looks like this thing can't lose :) Why are we holding tournaments still :)) >And Gromit has obviously made enormous strides. With a dark shadow over those 'accomplishments'... -- GCP
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