Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:31:34 11/09/02
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On November 09, 2002 at 17:42:07, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 09, 2002 at 17:22:49, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>The rule proposal is not random, but based on experience. > >I'm just saying that the rule proposal does nothing to prevent anyone from >cheating, and it also acts in a counter-productive manner by preventing some >people from participating. So, it's a matter of whether you want to add the pro >with the con, or have neither. > >Russell There is no way to _prevent_ cheating. But one significant problem we had in the past was a programmer using a manual interface while in book, then switching to automatic after out of book. The excuse "my interface won't work with a book" is pure nonsense, it just lets the human choose the opening lines as he wishes. If we require kibitzing time, score and PV, it will be very hard for an operator to make the program play a different move while keeping the scores and PV in a consistent state. It won't eliminate it, but it will make it harder.
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