Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:42:57 04/17/04
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On April 17, 2004 at 05:30:25, Frank Phillips wrote: >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 I just figured that if the author is not around "to answer even the most basic questions" that the confidence I'd ascribe to the finger notes would be lower than usual. Dave
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