Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:05:17 11/27/03
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On November 27, 2003 at 16:34:03, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On November 27, 2003 at 15:17:51, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1330 > >After reading at the above link, I find that disqualifying him in the middle of >tournament a little illogical. If such an accusation is made, it should be >resolved before the event takes place if there is time, otherwise it should be >resolved afterward. Doing so during the event is disruptive to the event and a >significant distracting handicap to the accused should they be exonerated. I agree. Before or after. Not DURING unless there was no alternative. Here it could have been handled quickly and completed prior to round 1. > >In this case, the accusation was made during the event and the accused is busy >with math exams. The stress of exams _and_ an accusation of fraud must be >terrible. Imagine if the accusation should turn out to be false? Yikes! > >What makes their decision to disqualify during the event particularly odd is >LIST would have to pull off a miracle to win the event. What's the harm in >letting a seeming crafty clone to continue to play then? It's not like there is >a serious chance that it would win and _then_ be disqualifed. That would >certainly hurt the event. > >BTW, one thing that bothers me is the rule that "...a listing of all >game-related code running on the system must be available on demand to the >Tournament Director.” > >Why should they get to see _all_ of it? I can see justification for requiring >showing enough of the source to show it is probably an original work, but _all_ >is unreasonable IMO. Programmers have their secrets to keep. I don't care about >ICGA's promise that it would be kept confidential. Why should a participant have >to unnecessarily depend on this promise being kept?
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