Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 07:42:38 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 09:35:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] > > >When Andy/Danny/myself/others had this discussion the other night, the main >thing we all agreed on was that we'd like the competetion to be 'open' with >everyone able to participate, yet we want to exclude 'clones' of existing >programs (ie crafty/gnu/tcb/comet/etc). > >Doing so will be a bit of a problem. But is probably necessary to make this >worthwhile... > >And the winner _must_ be subject to some sort of scrutiny to be sure that he >used an original program and not genius, or fritz or whatever... In a later discussion on ICC I was suggesting an extra "rule" that programs should output their evals and PVs into a channel or as whispers or kibitzes. This would make it a little easier to see what is going on - if ICC could store these for a few days afterwards, they could be inspected on appeal. Zek and another person (mashter?) identified some problems with this approach, but I guess it might be a useful first step in preventing people from interjecting moves etc. You could even insist on the program outputting timing information (eg "allocating 60 seconds", "extending time by 28 seconds" etc) to prevent <MOVE NOW> style interference. Even if this doesn't stop dodgy behaviour I think it would be a lot of fun for the spectators. Andrew Williams
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