Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:29:43 01/15/02
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On January 15, 2002 at 12:08:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 15, 2002 at 12:02:38, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: > >>On January 15, 2002 at 08:35:00, jefkaan wrote: >> >>>On January 15, 2002 at 00:24:06, pavel wrote: >>>>Yup, it's better to deal with it than talk about it, and coz misunderstandings. >>>>If it's not a clone than the author shouldn't have a problem to cooperate. >>> >>>ok, i've sent a copy of the recent sourcefile (only one file..) >>>to the tournament organizer (Volker); nullmove recently added >> >>You should not have sent anything at all, unless everyone of the participants >>send a copy too. What is this? a selective witch hunt against newcomers? >>This is ridiculous and you should not have fallen for this. Is Vincent >>going to send a copy too? >>There was a similar problem last time against a program that did too well. >>An amateur program and was accused of many things making the programmer >>very uncomfortable, putting him in a position to prove his innocence. >>Why? even pretigious people here get paranoid. >> >>My quesion is: Is everybody now going to send a copy of the version >>used in this tournament or you were finger pointed by a spurious accusation? >> >>Miguel >> > > >For the record, this has _always_ been a stipulation of ICCA-sponsored >computer chess events. The TD/organizing committee could demand to see >the source of a program to determine if cheating has occurred. This has >happened in the past and a couple of cases were caught by ICCA people. For the record, 1) I have not seen a TD/organizing committee demanding anything, it was a participant IN PUBLIC and that is sad. And 2) this is not sponsored by ICCA, but the first point makes it moot. Regards, Miguel > >And then again, I have caught at least four direct copies of Crafty being >used in such events, while claiming to be "new programs written from >scratch." > >The worrisome thing is that I am _positive_ that I haven't caught them >_all_... :( > >> >>>(thx Bas, for the pseudocode) but now it runs wild sometimes >>>tactically, although i included checking if side to move is in >>>check, and playing nullmove only every odd or even ply.. >>>To avoid further confusion i consider to open a temporarily >>>account (one month) on Icc with handle 'djenghis', >>>best regards >>>Jan >>>PS yet still i wonder Vincent's agressive behaviour to apparent >>>newcomers in the field of computer chess (smelling competition ?); >>>the intention of Djenghis, made just for fun, is to play gambits >>>on Fics (see handle 'djenghis' there..), its not intended >>>to compete with excellent engines like Yace and soforth..
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