Author: rasjid chan
Date: 22:40:34 08/20/05
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On August 20, 2005 at 22:06:24, Uri Blass wrote: >Suppose that somebody look at some public source code and decide to write code >that does the same algorithm but with different data structure so he cannot use >copy and paste for chess tasks. > >Do you think that the program is a clone or use code of another programmer? It is a legal clone. It DOES NOT use the code of another program as this strictly means "cut and paste". >Do you think that the programmer should not be allowed to participate in >tournaments? I believe this part is difficult to decide. Even with different basic data structures, a program that closely emulates the search and evaluations of that of another (well known program) may play too many similar moves to the comfort of any tournament administrator. So it raises the question of whether it is an original program. A simple example is someone who attempts to enter a clone of TSCP in a tournament. This clone can have nothing much that can be said to be original as it can easily be a near 100% clone. Besides the fact that it would suffer a TKO, it is not meaningful to allow such a program to participate. On the other hand, the world must run on SOME clearly defined rules besides the contingencies of human arbitration in some cases. For this it would probably make things simple to disqualify only cut-and-paste prgograms. To set any other type of criterion on the originality of a program would make it very difficult to administer unless it is never called into question. Besides, someone who has the ability to clone the method of that of another program would most probably have many good ideas of his own to make his program sufficiently original to participate in any tournament. Rasjid > >Note that my opinion is that the programmer should be allowed to participate >because copying ideas unlike copying code is allowed but before even considering >to try this idea(I am not sure if I will try it even if it is allowed) I prefer >to ask this question. > >Uri
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