Rolf Tueschen wrote:
The ICGA will be sorry for that crime of banning LIST the program of
Fritz Reul. LIST doesn't use bitboards as I am told so how could it be a
Crafty clone at all??

The allegation is that substantial portions of the code came from Crafty.
There's much more to Crafty than its bitboard-based move generation
routines.


Dann Corbit had seen the source of a former version and he judged all as
completely different to CRAFTY. Ulli Tuerke (COMET) say that the two
progs are totally different in their behaviour.

It doesn't matter how different they are in behaviour. For example, I
could take a copy of the Crafty source and change the evaluation routines
so that all the pieces have negative value. This would play completely
different moves from Crafty but is certainly not my original work and
therefore would be disqualified from the WCCC (well, it would be if people
could stop laughing at it).


Fritz Reul has his examins in mathematics this week so it is a crime to
disturb him at his home.

As has been pointed out, *he* chose to enter this competition which he
knew was going to be at the same time as his exams. If he didn't want to
be disturbed, he shouldn't have entered the WCCC. And, tell me, how long
does it take to

tar cz ~/src/list-current/ | uuencode -m | mail

? OK, maybe he's not using Unix but firing up Winzip and Outlook doesn't
take long, either.

The tournament rules say that you mustn't steal anyone else's code and
that you must co-operate with any investigations. Nobody knows whether
he's stolen anyone else's code because he hasn't revealed his source.
Everyone knows that he hasn't co-operated with an investigation, though,
and that's why he was disqualified.


Dave.

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