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Subject: Re: No fix for the clone detection problem

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 10:09:07 12/01/03

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

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>>
>>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.

Yes, and you could even include your own patzer engine for test suites and
Crafty for tournament time controls. How do you know how many engines an exe
file contains?

Bo Persson

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>Georg



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