Re^2: Perl Golf Ethics

I remember a University colleague cheating with an assignment in AI - he had to build an alpha-beta pruning based opponent in connect4. He lingered until the very end, and then resorted to the Internet (and 10 years ago I don't remember Google :). He later commented: "0 in AI... but 10 in websurfing!".

It's interesting that you cite the chess game. There are a lot of books on chess, and many openings have been studied and are learnt by a lot of people. What would you think about someone reviewing his chess book while doing an online (e.g. play-by-mail) match? I'm not sure I'd reduce it all to "take it only from your memory", even if I've to admit that I don't really know where to draw the line.

Flavio
perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf

Don't fool yourself.

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Re^3: Perl Golf Ethics by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Jan 31, 2007 at 11:07 UTC
With online chess, the rules are usually given on the site. For non real time chess, such as correspondence chess (e.g. http://www.redhotpawn.com) consulting opening books or chess opening websites is allowed, but feeding your moves or position to a chess program is not allowed, though they can't stop you, and it's difficult to prove it. The site I mentioned has forums where this subject has been discussed in great depth. -- Oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? My friends all rate Windows, I must disagree. Your powers of persuasion will set them all free, So oh Lord, won’t you burn me a Knoppix CD ? (Missquoting Janis Joplin)	[reply]
Re^4: Perl Golf Ethics by polettix (Vicar) on Jan 31, 2007 at 18:49 UTC
It's interesting how mtve's book can be considered a "classic" for Perl golf (and thus could be considered "allowed"), while Thospel's procedure to find his beautiful "magic formula" has been automatically executed by a computer according to this (which would break chess' rules of "no automation"). But, of course, the geniality resides in thinking that such a formula exists, not in the raw calculations! :) Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply]