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Subject: Re: List disqualified?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 18:48:35 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 21:38:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 20:59:14, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>
>Sure.  Anything about how commercial engines do whatever they do.

: )

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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