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Subject: Re: Who has burden of proof, author or Tournament Committee?

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 17:31:01 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 20:22:26, Martin Andersen wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 20:05:22, Roger D Davis wrote:
>
>
>Cut.
>
>You didn't read carefully enough:
>"Programs which are discovered to be close derivatives of
>others (e.g., by playing nearly all moves the same)."
>
>Pay close attention to (...).
>
>Yes they claim to have some circumstantial evidence, if
>they had clear evidence they didn't need to ask for the source-code, but
>just ban him at once.
>It's very difficult, maybe impossible to prove that LIST is a Crafty clone
>without having the source-code.
>
>It would be silly if we had a tournament where half of the programmes where
>Crafty clones, but they couldn't be banned because nobody could prove it.
>It's all in the Tournament rules: We are in doubt, show us the code.
>
>Martin.

I'm not taking sides here, but suppose the Tournament rules causes the banning
of completely innocent programmers?

Regards
Dave



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