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

[Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:56:38 -0800 (PST)

   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

I'm   trying  to  be  reasonable  Cristoph.   But   if you  don't even
understand what the   term  "agreement"   means,  I don't   see   this
conversation going anywhere useful.

Don