Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 00:08:41 11/25/03
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On November 25, 2003 at 02:59:12, Mig Greengard wrote: >Having debated both sides of the issue in regard to man-machine play, I'm left >wondering why opening books are used in computer-only competitions. Doesn't the whole idea simply fail because it would be almost impossible to prove that a certain engine doesn't _still_ have a book internally? Limiting program size etc fail in practice. The only thing that work would be to actually have the source code of the engines and compile them right before the tournament starts. But that fails due to commercial interests. Sargon
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