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Subject: Re: What constitutes a clone?

Author: Chris Welty

Date: 05:24:51 02/17/05

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On February 16, 2005 at 11:37:42, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>I find a new trick that gives my program a nice boost.  I figure with some
>refinement it may have commercial potential.  I enter it in a tournament.  It is
>alleged to be a clone.  Rules state, in such case I show my source to some
>committee established by the tournament organizers.  I fear that if I do so my
>discovery will no longer remain secret.
>
>What would you do?

There are tournaments that don't require that, so I'd enter them instead.

In CCT7 the engines had to kibitz eval and PV. From this it's pretty obvious
whether the eval is cloned without revealing any source.



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