RE: computer-go: prevent cheating

[Sai To Wang <swang@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I was wrong.


> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: engels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:engels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Enviado el: miércoles 20 de octubre de 1999 6:28
> Para: computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: Re: computer-go: prevent cheating
> 
> 
> Sai To Wang wrote:
> 
> > "search-depth" is not exactly what I meant, what I'm trying 
> to say is
> > that all time_based decisions can be "sort" in 256 level (stage) or
> > maybe more, and every stage can had a resulting move,since all the
> > calculation is done one after another (will be very hard in 
> multi-thread). 
> 
> However, in that case a 'cheater' can easily abuse the 
> system: use a computer
> program that is bad in finding the best move, but can spawn a lot of
> reasonable moves in a short span of time (deterministically), 
> and let it
> choose (say) 100 moves. Then let the human user choose one of 
> these moves.
> The computer sends the move plus a number from 1 to 100 being 
> the place this
> move has on its move list.
> 
> 
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