Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:14:15 07/13/04
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On July 13, 2004 at 17:51:23, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Besides the groups you mentioned we need a third group by the program that >should have won, but were sadly unlucky and did not. >You can even use this kind of clasification to save the money and time expended >in real, unuseful competitions. Even no-comers can be included: "my program did >no win because it was not there. Unluckily, I could not go for lack of money, >but if..." >Or: >"I did not win because I have not a program at all". >That would be my reason to be included in this third group. We can do like the auto manufacturers do. Have a "class" for everything. We may wonder how a car that costs 1/3 of a million dollars can be the "cheapest car" -- simple, it's the cheapest car in its class. All you have to do is invent enough classes so that every program is in its own class and every program becomes world champion! That will include (of course) the 'no program' class, along with 'I am starting to write a program' and "firecracker chess" where you throw firecrackers at the chess board and whenever a legal chess move is made, you stick with that move. We can have "One transistor chess" that disallows all programs using more than one transistor to compute the moves. Then there is Eiffel chess. Not using the Eiffel language (which nobody cares about anyway) but using the Eiffel tower as a pawn. Of course, we'll need to contract someone to build the rest of the chessmen. We'll also need some cutting torches and cranes to make the pieces easier to move. And don't forget Gothic chess. No, no, not the patented thingy by Ed. Of course, I am talking about where people who play this game dress in black and feel depressed about everything and paint their faces to look like "KISS" is still popular or something.
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