Author: José Carlos
Date: 02:56:50 01/22/04
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On January 21, 2004 at 16:18:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 21, 2004 at 16:01:00, Will Singleton wrote: > >>On January 21, 2004 at 15:07:35, Thomas Mayer wrote: >> >>>Hi Slate, >>> >>>>Information about ICC member AdamChess: >>>> AdamChess is a computer program. >>>> >>>> >>>> rating win loss draw total best >>>>Blitz 2007 2 0 0 2 0 >>>>Standard 2072 5 0 0 5 0 >>>> >>>> >>>> 1. Ruffian 2 >>>> 2. Hardware: AMD 1400+ 256 MB RAM >>>> 3. WINDOWS XP >>>> >>>>Email: beatthedrums_3@hotmail.com >>>> >>> >>>well, I was near to ask Will for what reason he wants to disqualify AdamChess, >>>looking now on the finger notes (which were not there some days ago or so) I >>>think Will is right. >>> >>>Greets, Thomas >> >>Well, I might be hallucinating, but I think the Ruffian note was just added >>after my post. I also recall some info that said AdamChess was an amateur >>program written by Adam from New York (maybe in the finger notes). So, >>apparently he decided to come clean. >> >>To answer your original question, the CCT rules have a provision to disqualify >>unknown programs. This is to prevent occurrences like the above, which if not >>dealt with effectively, would wreck the tournament. It states: >> >>"...Only original programs are allowed and ABSOLUTELY NO CLONES. Most >>programs are pretty well known by the Computer Chess community and >>therefore if brand new, unknown program appears I will consult >>other people to decide its entry in the tournament. >>ICC reserves the right to decline any application for this >>tourney." >> >>Will > >I think we need to come up with some way of making this happen, now, rather >than later. I really would not want to be a "referee" that looks at lots of >source. But we might find a group of volunteers and let each take >responsibility for one or two programs, excepting the obvious cases like >(say) Crafty, where the source is public and _anybody_ can verify whether it >will play the moves seen in CCT6, etc... > >But we do need to do something. There are some suspicious amateurs on ICC >that might show up for CCT-6... Dann Corbit can do it, if he wants, of course. He's seen a lot of sources from many programs, including mine, and I trust him blindly to not reveal details. So I vote for Dann, and will send him my code if it is necessary. Note that this has to be done during the tournament, because I might do little changes or fix some bug between rounds. So if a program behaves suspiciously in round x, the round x executable plus the round x source code would be needed. Sounds a little messy to me, but I accept it if it's the majority's will. José C.
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