Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 12:30:53 04/17/04
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On April 17, 2004 at 14:42:57, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Agreed. It certainly was suspicious, having apparantly come out of nowhere.
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