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Subject: Re: Reminder and news re: ICC authors-only tournament

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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