Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 12:53:23 01/21/04
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On January 21, 2004 at 15:18:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >I think we need to study the complete question here very carefully. IE >one program, one entry. Enforcing that is _not_ a simple task. I will >happily provide my source, so that a third-party can look at it to see that >it is unique and not a copy of another program, and then he can use that >source to build an executable and compare that executable with the output >displayed by Crafty during a game at some "interesting" point. If we don't >set this up correctly to start with, you _know_ what is going to happen. We >will get commercial programs playing instead of amateur programs, etc... > >There are already more than a few suspicious programs running on ICC. I won't >name names, but I have played a couple of amateurs that I can't beat even with >a hardware advantage. I find that pretty unlikely in real life... > >If we aren't careful, human nature will wreck this event just like it tries to >wreck everything else. That is my opinion too. /Matthias.
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