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Subject: Re: Why ban List now?

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 12:58:15 11/28/03

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I am not sure about that, Roger. I do  believe the Tournament Committee is NOT
on trial and that their actions are NOT outrageous enought to warrant auditing.
I also think that by exposing whatever methods they used to (presumably)
successfully expose a fraud might weaken those methods because future defective
competitors could engineer their products to avoid detection.
You are welcome to think otherwise. I would rather give the committee the
benefit of the doubt than to a renegade programmer.
ps the commitee's methods could be flawed, eg a false positive, but the
programmer did not offer his code as counter-evidence for whatever reason. That
was the programmer's choice and he is accepting responsibility for that choice
now. The methodology of producing source code is established--nothing new here.


On November 28, 2003 at 00:56:40, Roger D Davis wrote:

>On November 28, 2003 at 00:39:06, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?331302
>
>There are certainly different degrees of circumstantial evidence...some strong,
>some weak. If the evidence was strong, I would have hoped that the Chessbase
>letter would have said so. Then it would have been obvious that there was no
>choice but to demand the source. As it is, it's not clear whether the
>circumstantial evidence is strong or weak. The only thing that is clear is that
>the example given of strong evidence, repeating the same moves as a published
>program, isn't applicable to List.
>
>Roger



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