Author: Mike S.
Date: 15:12:50 02/24/06
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As mentioned in the initial posting, my concern here was NOT about, if an engine can play in some tournament or not, by it's rules. These are up to the organisers each; maybe it makes some sense not to include 2 engines which are very similar to each other. Although I don't see why that restriction should inavoidably be necessary. And someone who really wants to enter with a secret illegal clone, cannot be prevented from doing so by simply stating "no clones allowed." For that, I think you would need proceedures of "technical nature" to ensure it. I could raise the question by which criteria one from two very similar (code sharing) legal engines each, is chosen to be given a right to participate, or to be banned. For example, Toga - being freeware - undoubtely has the much larger user base among fans than Fruit 2.2 or later has, which means there is most probably more interest in Toga games and results. Also, Toga is the strongest (non-beta) freeware engine. Also, Toga is the strongest open source engine. Imagining I would run a tournament comparable to CCT, I could base an decision to ban Fruit and permit Toga, on these three good arguments above :)) (Actually, if I'd really had to decide this I would of course ban none of them!) But I'm not mainly interested in that, but in avoiding public wording in CCC which discredits someone. I think definitions of "clone" where that word has no negative sense involved, are artificial or not relevant for computer chess. Everyone in computer chess knows what "clone" implies. Regards, M.Scheidl
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