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

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 05:09:40 07/11/04

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On July 11, 2004 at 07:59:13, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>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.


This is a scandal!:-)

Sandro
>>>
>>>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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