Why would Fabien be embarrassed? He explicitly asked the ICGA to investigate loop. I saw the email from him, which came to all of us during an exchange with him...K I Hyams wrote:“The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has received a formal complaint from Fabien Letouzey, the programmer of FRUIT, regarding the program LOOP. The allegation is that LOOP, which has participated in the World Computer Chess Championship, uses code derived from FRUIT, which placed second at the 2005 World Computer Chess Championship in Reykjavik.”Rebel wrote: http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Fritz+Reul
We are now pleased to announce that Mr Reul has since submitted his program code to the scrutiny of an expert approved by the ICGA tournament committee and that this expert has declared Mr. Reul’s code to be completely above board, with no sign of any copying of code from other known programs. Furthermore Mr. Reul has submitted to the ICGA an apology for what happened in 2003 (see above). The ICGA tournament committee has therefore decided unanimously to lift the suspension on Mr. Reul with immediate effect and to welcome him back for participation in future ICGA events.
London, England
David Levy
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7926
I wonder whether Fabien Letouzey is embarrassed by this. There are similarities between the reaction of Reul and some of the reactions of Rajlich to the accusations made against them. That fact does not prove anything but It is nevertheless interesting to those who consider that neither displayed the reactions of an innocent man.
righting a wrong is not embarrassing. It DOES show the potential problems with an "independent 3rd party" reviewing anything. A group, ala the ICGA secretariat, has a much better chance of finding the right people to investigate and get the right answer the first time around... Oh well...