Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 14:09:29 04/16/04
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On April 16, 2004 at 13:58:38, Frank Phillips wrote: >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 How do you know what hardware it ran on? Do you consider the finger notes to be reliable? Dave
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