Author: Tony Werten
Date: 04:27:10 05/18/04
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On May 18, 2004 at 07:17:49, Mark Winands wrote: >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. The suggestion that the university of Yale is offering prize money while it actually is the patentholder who happens to work for the university, who is trying to create some more interest in his game, is a bit dubious imo. Tony > >Best, > >Mark
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