Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:18:28 06/18/99
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On June 18, 1999 at 22:32:52, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On June 18, 1999 at 19:44:44, Albert Silver wrote: > >>I looked up the tournment rules as Bob Hyatt had mentioned that an author had to >>be present when entering a program in the WCCC-99. Bruce had asked this to be >>confirmed so I am presenting the relevant tournament rules here: >> >>Tournament Rules >> >>Paderborn, Germany >>14-20 June 1999 >> >>The Board of ICCA >> >> >>Below the Board of ICCA provides information on the tournament rules and a >>provisional tournament schedule. For convenience, the times of the Advances in >>Computer Chess 9 Conference are included in the provisional schedule too. >> >> 1.Each entry is a computing system and one or more humans who programmed it. >>At least one of the program developers must attend the championship to operate >>the program. At least 50% of the entering developers, and all developers >>attending the event, must be ICCA members in good standing. No exceptions will >>be made to this rule. >> >> 2.Each program must be the original work of the entering developers. Programs >>derived from, or including, chess-playing code written by others (for example, >>programs based on CRAFTY), must name all other authors, or the source of such >>code, in their application details. Programs which are discovered to be close >>derivatives of others (e.g., by playing nearly all moves the same), may be >>declared invalid by the Tournament Director, after seeking expert advice. For >>this purpose, a listing of all chess-related programs running on the system must >>be available on demand to the Tournament Director. >> >> >> Albert Silver > > >Rule 1 is an annoying weird rule. Unfortunately, Dr. Hyatt did not realize that >all he had to do was point to someone and say "you're one of the authors" (and >make them an ICCA member) to satisfy the requirement. To stay "honest", he >could have him/her modify the opening book. This rule is not much of an >obstacle and is just silly. Crafty is an interesting and useful benchmark to >measure other programs, since it is strong and well tested in internet play. I >think its non-participation hurts the tourney (and DR. Hyatt). I don't understand the purpose of rule 1, particularly when it is specifically not used in the WMCCC event which is also ICCA-sponsored. Perhaps an attempt to get the programmers together to exchange ideas, but that is a joke is it not? How many commercial programmers exchange anything? Marty is the first to write something and publish it (book learning) that I have seen... and he deserves a pat on the back... now it he will continue that trend. :) Bob
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