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Subject: Re: Crafty Clone was disqualified, what a shame

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 15:47:53 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 18:23:40, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 18:02:25, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>LIST is not accused of being a clone of anything. LIST's author is accused of
>>PLAGIARIZING some of Dr. Hyatt's open code from Crafty and incorporating it
>>based upon the contraversy and behavior of previous LIST versions--that is the
>>foundation of the charge--not the behavior of the current list at the tourney.
>>This is an ethical charge of not attributing work and the author is alleged to
>>have failed to respond to the charge.
>>
>>
>
>
>Assuming that it is plagarism that the accusation is refering to.
>
>Can it be proved that the PopCount() or Get_First_Bit_From_Bitboard() or
>whatever crafty uses is plagarised by list ?!
>
>If you are going to get into specific code module plagarism - then how was the
>accusation made in the first place ?!!! How did the accusor know about this
>unless he has seen the code ?!
>These are internal to the engine and just cant be observed from outside.
>Hence we can safely conclude that it has to be some externally visible
>component.
>
>So what could that be :
>
>EGTB ? , opening book ? learning ? cli syntax (!!!) ?
>
>I dont know how List supports all this - so cant comment on these.
>
>But these are trivial issues !!!!
>To make such a serious accusation and ICGA following it up with such severe
>action , due to such petty reasons is indeed extremely saddening.
>
>
>Mridul
>
><snip>
>>
>>
>>On November 27, 2003 at 17:15:48, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:



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