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Subject: Re: List disqualified?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 17:59:14 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 20:53:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 15:41:47, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>So List has been disqualified by the ICGA on the suspicion of being a Crafty
>>clone? Maybe Fritz Reul looked over Bob Hyatt's shoulder at the free source
>>code, but I doubt it's a clone, even in its roots. The playing style is too
>>different. But in the absence of an official statement by List's author, I'd be
>>interested to hear what Bob himself thinks about it.
>
>
>This is one of those cases where I have nothing significant to add.

Could you cite another example?  : ) : ) : ) : ) : ) : ) : )

Bob D.

>I have
>not been contacted by the ICGA.  I have not seen any List source code.  I
>have not seen any games List played.  I have not (to my knowledge) played List
>on ICC.  I have no idea what the basis is for the claim, nor who made the
>claim, nor why they made it, nor why the ICGA took it so seriously.  We just
>don't have any real data.
>
>
>In short, I live in an "information vacuum".  With no data, anything I say
>would be based on nothing more than wild guesses...



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