Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 11:04:50 11/17/02
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On November 17, 2002 at 03:55:11, Volker Richey wrote: >The program.exe must be >executable! So if I wrote a chess program in perl I can't play? Keep piling on these kinds of rules, and watch fewer and fewer people participate. This is why I hate UCI. It assumes that your chess engine works a certain way, just like you are assuming that all engines are written in C/C++ or some compiled language, and that they work with Winboard. What if someone wants to participate and they don't want others running their program? For example, Bruce Moreland doesn't release Ferret as public, so obviously he doesn't want to send someone an executable. Perhaps someone could add in password protection to their engine, and if you don't know the password, it formats the hard disk. You can still get an MD5-sum from it. Aside from that, if I am the author of a program that I enter, I can send you any program (clone, whatever) and I can MD5 it myself before I send it, and then you will MD5 it, and now what? All that you know is that my file is the same one I sent you. Now I can use a different one in the tournament. So what does Md5-summing do? More pointless rules that only hinder those who play fair anyway. Anyone who wants to get around any of these rules can do so with no problem.
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