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

Author: Andrew Wagner

Date: 16:31:15 04/16/04

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>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

Agreed. Thanks for the suggestion. I left it in because somebody mentioned they
thought it was a particular engine. I emailed that author, though, and he said
it's not. Oh well, next time I'll just have to forfeit first and ask questions
later. Andrew



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