Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 00:59:00 12/01/03
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On December 01, 2003 at 03:42:28, Roberto Nerici wrote: >What I find confusing is that Steven says that he is making this proposal in >response to the Crafty/List type issue, yet I can't see how it addresses it. Hmm. I'm not 100% sure what to think about this. It is a tough issue. But here are my thoughts. I don't think the organizers of an event should play police to that degree. Whether or not someone copied Crafty's opening book code shouldn't get them disqualified, so long as they don't use the same book (which could be detected by Steven's test). I think the organizers should worry about things that affect the move selection of the program (search, eval, opening book, and so on). If those are different enough to avoid suspision after Steven's test, then I say let them play. I think people who release their source code are in favor of progress. If someone can make progress by spending their time on improving their search and evaluation because they didn't have to spend a year writing the very basic things that every chess programmer has written over and over, they are probably in favor of that.
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