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

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 07:40:17 07/11/04

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On July 11, 2004 at 08:09:40, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>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

I think Crafty is the real surprise of this tournament!

Sandro



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