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Subject: Re: Shredder wins in Graz after controversy

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 07:27:19 12/09/03

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On December 09, 2003 at 10:16:30, José Carlos wrote:

>On December 09, 2003 at 10:09:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On December 09, 2003 at 10:05:05, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>>GCP, are you saying that the program Jonny, and the operator of Jonny did not
>>>know about the repetition until informed by Mr. Z?
>>>are you saying that the program Jonny also could not detect the position had
>>>been played for the third time?
>>
>>Mr Zwanzer = Jonny programmer = Jonny operator
>>
>>Jonny did not know that a 3 fold repetition is a draw.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>  The software playing under the name Jonny did know. If what the GUI says is
>ignored then don't let Jonny play under that GUI. Don't keep repeating that
>nonsense about the engine vs the GUI. One player, one playing unit, that's it.

I think that combining a private engine with a commercial GUI on occasions like
this is very debatable.
It was a big case that one of the programs was suspected to use source code of
another one. Why should use of foreign code in binary form be acceptable ?

Uli
>
>  José C.



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