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Subject: Re: CRAFTY will be disqualified , since it is a clone of CRAY BLITZ :-)

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 04:59:13 07/11/04

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On July 11, 2004 at 07:50:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On July 11, 2004 at 07:33:51, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>in Graz we had the situation that suddenly when LIST was ahead of DIEP & SJENG
>>it was ordered that LIST should prove through his code that it wasn't a CRAFTY
>>clone. LIST was banned and therefore DIEP & SJENG were ahead of LIST again,
>>because LIST was forbidden to play on.
>>
>>Now after the 8th round in Bar-Ilan we have that same situation. This time a
>>program called C_R_A_F_T_Y is ahead of DIEP & SJENG. Ahead of everybody except
>>JUNIOR, SHREDDER & FRITZ.
>>
>>What will happen? Will Crafty lay open his source code to prove beyond
>>reasonable doubts that it's not a clone???
>>
>>Tension increasing. How the TD will decide. Will something worse happen?
>>
>>Satire Wolf
>>
>>P.S. I was just informed that this time the Crafty clone question was met by
>>simply pairing the beast against all others with the Black pieces. (In German:
>>So Peter has the Schwarzen Peter!!)
>
>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm
>
>In 1981 CRAY BLITZ won the Mississipi State Championship with a perfect 5-0
>score and a performance rating of 2258. In round 4 it defeated Joe Sentef (2262)
>to become the first computer to beat a master in tournament play and the first
>computer to gain a master rating (2258).
>
>Sorry Mr. Hyatt, but you have to admit it, crafty still have some old ideas from
>your original CRAY BLITZ project :-)
>
>Jorge


I knew that he had some dark secret!! But I never dared to tell. At least it's a
bit suspicious that he comes with an allegedly open source and dumps old well
established premium programs like DIEP & SJENG. Something must have been hidden
in Mr. Hide. And I smelled it.

Satire Rolf



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