Human Interference In Computer Chess Championship?

Posted by simoniker on Monday December 1, 2003 @03:34AM from the computer-plus-one dept.

migstradamus writes "In a twist with interesting implications for the computer chess world, the intervention of a human programmer and a human arbiter have had a decisive impact on the World Computer Chess Championship that finished today in Graz, Austria. What happens when a programmer acts against his creation's best interest? ChessBase has an eye-witness report on the dilemma. This year's event was already controversial due to the disqualification of one of the programs midway through for being derivative of an open source program."

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Not an Open Source Issue by Isao · 2003-12-01 05:05 · Score: 3, Informative

This isn't being looked at because it's open-source, but because code may have been used without credit (plagerism) and the code may be too similar to the original (tourney rules prohibit gameplay too similar to other programs).
The author also has failed to reveal his code to the committee despite several opportunities.