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Subject: Re: No fix for the clone detection problem

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 04:16:13 12/01/03

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On December 01, 2003 at 06:11:08, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:

>
>>
>>This fingerprint is constucted by running the same EPD test suite for each
>>program immediately prior to the start of an event and then automatically
>>checking the resulting EPD output files with some predetermined similarity
>>metric.  The same suite can be fed to non-competing programs if necessary.  The
>>similarity test would look at both the PV and the evaluation scores of each
>>record generated and this should be enough for clone detection.
>>
>
>Sorry but this just doesnt work. It is too easy to change a program so that it
>shows different scores and main lines.
>
>Georg

Right and you don't even have to be  a programmer to do it, with some programs
like Crafty. :)



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