Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
Hi,
No one on mother Earth can deny the great job you are doing with Christopher catching the cloners and saving our testing time and hardware resources....
Dr.D
Excuse me if I disagree. It's just the computerchess community to begin with and then this community, at least here on CCC, is a bit undecided.
In some cases it creates a lot of suspicion against alleged fakes but then that same community is trying to whitewash certain persons. And then it's a disturbing coincidence when a proven several times sinner was among those hunters who wanted to chase certain fake(r)s. The private hunter principle brings a factor into our community that is not sane, as if it were news that certain experts could reveil any sort of fakes if necessary. That alone should be enough to prevent the most fakes. But to praise a private group that is constantly chasing after fakes in a style of police is therefore problematic because the community as such has never installed or authorized such a police institution. And - above all - that institution insinuates a sort of cleaness which isnt existing at all.
Two aspects:
- Practically all free programs and probably the commercial ones
too are based to 60 - 90 % on prior programs (enter your own %)
- The few commercial programs were never examined in detail
So, as a consequence I propose that procedure:
It is declared by the CC federation/community that cloning is forbidden and if discovered the cloner is no longer a participant in tests or plays.
It is declared that since commercial programs cant be examined, a certain individual cloning cant have influence on the status of a programmer.
Since commercials cant be examined any permanent bureau of investigation should be closed because it it's just a pain for motivated beginners or traditional delinquents, while the commercial guys bath themselves in the light of unchallengable good names.
A council of true experts (like Bob Hyatt plus NNs) can always be activated in case of serious doubts related to championships or such some.
Again IMO it's inacceptable to tolerate a private hunter group, as motivated as it might be, because this private group is acting under no control and it has no power in front of commercial programs. It disciplines the little amateurs and avoids to research the financially potent commercial entities. This is unfair, undemocratic and suppressing potential talents. Because all talents once in a while start and work with copies. And 90 % of the whole scene is mutual borrowed material.
I want to close this little memorandum with the following provocation:
If in case a talented programmer newbie would borrow 99% of the known stuff and with his 1% of new ideas or technical tricks he would get a program that is 10 or 20% stronger than all others, then the details of these 99% should have no attention by anyone since it cant logically be in no thinkable case that such an entity should be a clone if it's so much stronger than all others. So, believe it or not, in truth it's the strength that decides if it's regarded as a clone. The strongest thing on Earth cant be a clone by definition because then the cloned thing would be similarily strong.
With that simple rule or logic we could end all RYBKA debates now and foever. Period.
you are the first to understand what it is all about 
