Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 02:30:25 04/17/04
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On April 16, 2004 at 17:09:29, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 If you are asking whether the finger notes could be wrong, then the answer is yes, of course. I have never done, nor seen the results of, a survey of finger notes (on ICC) against the 'reality', so have no view of whether finger notes are reliable or not. I guess I tend to believe what is written, until I have evidence otherwise. Naive perhaps. But the opposite is either paranoia or experience :-) Given the people I normally play on ICC (the authors), I tend to believe that the finger note are not incorrect on purpose. Frank
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