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Re:Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games by hrjet on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:35PM (#6776860)
Wouldn't a match with an open-source engine be unfair? The competing close-source engine could embed the opponents source inside it to predict the exact moves that the opponent would make, thus gaining a speed advantage.

Even more interestingly, what would a match between two open-source engines look like, if they both embedded each other?

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Re:Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games by cscheid on Thursday November 21, 2013 @03:37PM (#6777303)
Eliezer Yudkowsky gave a talk at MIT recently that touched on this very subject:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/itp/meetup_talk_by_eliezer_yudkowsky...

Some commentary by Scott Aaronson:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1558#comment-89317

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Re:Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games by nl on Thursday November 21, 2013 @05:19PM (#6777934)
There's a fair bit of data (opening books) and configuration that can differ between two otherwise equivalent engines.
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