Author: Mark Winands
Date: 04:17:49 05/18/04
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Dear Vincent, I appreciate you interest in Octi. As you probably know an Octi tournament was already described in the ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, "Computers and Octi: Report from the 2001 Tournament". There is a valid AI interest in this game. What I don't understand is your complaint of patent games. They are nothing new at the Olympiad: Scrabble (registered trademark of HASBRO): There was a scrabble tournament at the first four computer olympiads (1989,1990,1991,1992). At the seventh computer olympiad (2002) there was a man - machine match (Maven against the Dutch Champion) sponsored by the dutch scrabble association. Othello (registered trademark of Tsukuda): There was a othello tournament at the first four computer olympiads (1989,1990,1991,1992). Diplomacy (registered trademark of Avalon Hill): There was a man-machine match at the fourth computer olympiads (1992). There is Twixt (published by 3M) challenge. Even the status of LOA (since 2000)is unclear (you still can purchase it as a branded boxed game in Germany). This "wrong" move has been made for years. You should have complained years ago. Still I don't understand what is wrong about it. Best, Mark
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