Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 10:58:38 04/16/04
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On April 16, 2004 at 11:22:42, Andrew Wagner wrote: >Tomorrow, Saturday, at **4 pm** (new time), we'll have qualifier two on ICC for >the authors-only tournaments. Also, I have received no response from the >SmartyPants(C) account, and have found no information about it, so I am >disqualifying it from future tournaments. Current Grand Prix standings: > >Chepla........5 >YACE..........5 >SearcherX.....3 >thebaron......3 >ChompsterX....1 >muse-comp.....1 > >As always, format details can be found at >http://chessicstudent.europe.webmatrixhosting.net/proposal.htm or you can email >me at ChessicStudent@juno.com Andrew When an unknown program enters the competition and the author is not around to answer even the most basic questions, then it may be better to remove the entrant from the tournament immediately, before the first round of matches start. This is not suggesting that such a program is necessarily a cheat of course. Whatever it is, SmartyPants obviously strong, running as it was on half or less than half of the speed of the hardware used by most of the others programs. Frank
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