Re: computer-go: Authenticating the identity of a remote go-playing computer program

[birk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

birk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>  We earlier agreed that we cannot restrict
>  our programs to be deterministic.

drd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> No one   made such an   agreement, what are you talking about?

ddyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> In any case, requiring deterministic behavior is completely
> unacceptable.  If any program in tournament play behaved deterministicly,
> all you need to win every game against it is the record of some past game
> which the program lost.

no comment,
Christoph