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by Mark Watkins

This is a page to briefly describe some previous ICCA/ICGA investigations, or more generally, originality and plagiarism in computer boardgames. One purpose for this is to ease the formation of a historical context in any decision process.

=Chess Examples= 

Quickstep
In the 9th World Microcomputer Chess Championship (Portorož, 1989), the program Quickstep by Mr. Langer was excluded from further participation after four rounds. The reason was that the program was “an unauthorized version of the Mephisto Almeria program”.



Gunda-1
In //Experience is a Hard Teacher// from Jakarta in 1996, Tony Marsland writes :

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See also the comment of Jaap van den Herik on //Augmented Ideas// in the ICCA Journal. 

List
In the 11th WCCC (Graz, 2003) the author of the program List refused inspection of his program code and was banned from the tournament for precisely this reason. Subsequent letters from Reul and Levy were published in the ICGA Journal Vol. 28, No. 1, March 2005 

Lion++
Jaap van den Herik reviews the 2006 case of Lion++ in ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, June 2006. 

El Chinito
El Chinito (Chinito played two ICGA tournaments, the WCCC 2002 and 2003 ) was suspected and proved to contain Crafty code in 2004. Eugenio Castillo Jiménez admitted using Crafty in an open letter and also informed the ICGA. 

SquarknII
David Levy's reports on in 2010 on SquarknII by Johandry Gonzalez Espin, who wanted to enter the WCCC 2010 with a RobboLito clone.  =Computer Go= An overview of the case in computer Go, entitled //Plagiarism in Computer Go// was given in 2000 by [|Raymond Keene], and evidence was given by Chen Zhixing. It can also be noted that the long-term effects of this case continue to linger :

I could find no independent mention of this 2009 decision, but did find an exchange regarding 2008 participation : ||

It would be nice to track down the official ICGA statement.

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