Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 09:42:59 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 12:29:10, Will Singleton wrote: [snip] >That we are human doesn't necessarily lead to your conclusion. In business, or >life in general, one cannot trust blindly. Prudent due diligence requires >verification. Trust, if you like, but verify. This enhances, and in fact >enables competition, far from detracting from it. > >Verification could be done fairly easily, if people felt that the CCT >tournaments were actually important. Logs and real-time pv's are a start, but >other methods could be developed. Too bad that nobody thinks it is important. The WMCCC has become the WMCCC[Europe] and for many sessions now, very good programs have not entered because it is too expensive to fly to Europe every contest. With the internet, every different program on earth could participate and make a fascinating competition that only costs modem connect time, internet bandwidth or whatever (clearly cheaper than airplane tickets and a hotel). People in South America could play. People in Australia and New Zealand could play. Expense would cease to be an object, so a clever university student on a shoestring budget could compete on an even keel with someone who was independently wealthy. The audience is potentially enormous. The only obstacle (it seems) is fear of cheating. And (strangest of all) nobody seems to think it is worthwhile to remove that obstacle. I find it an absurd situation.
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