Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:33:56 11/28/03
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On November 28, 2003 at 16:07:25, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On November 28, 2003 at 15:03:55, James T. Walker wrote: > >>At this point it is sensless to speculate whether List is a clone of Crafty or >>not. There was an accusation. There was a request(demand) for source code from >>the author. He chose not to respond as required by the rules. He was >>disqualified for that reason. It all seems perfectly clear to me. Maybe this >>will cause future rules changes but that's another story. >>Jim > >The question is whether the demand to inspect the source code had been based on >a _reasonable_ accusation. All we have heard so far about that is that "the >complaint is supported by circumstantial evidence". Frankly, I have no idea >about the meaning of this. I hope we will know one day. :( > >OTOH, Fritz Reul had been offered the chance to clarify these issues next week >in Frankfurt with Dr. Heinz. Fritz is living rather close to Frankfurt. So this >looks at least like a fair chance. But he hadn't replied to this offer, afaik. > >Should it turn out that the "circumstantial evidence" has substance, then I >would say that the actions done by ICGA had been okay. After all, participating >in this tourney means acceptance of the tourney rules. > >Uli I think that it was a mistake to allow list to play in the first place even without the accusation and the fact that Fritz Reul did not travel to graz but stayed in germany is enough to cancel list. It seems that Fritz does not care much about the tournament and the people who are punished by the decision are mainly the programmers who get technical win against List. People did not travel to graz in order to get a technical win against list. If you cancel people then you should do it in the beginning of the tournament so you can care to even number of players by using a program with free source code like crafty. Uri
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