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Subject: You are right !!

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:

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>
>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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