Responding to Rajlich, Rybka and Riis: The ICGA Strikes Back

Recently Søren Riis wrote a four-part article in defense of Rybka programmer Vasik Rajlich against the International Computer Games Association's (ICGA's) charges that Rajlich plagiarized code. (To read Riis, here are part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.)

The ICGA has not ignored Riis's apologia, and both its president David Levy and University of Sydney mathematician Mark Watkins have authored replies. Levy's, which can be downloaded here, is shorter, more rhetorically based, while Watkins' more significant and meaty reply gets down into the technical details.

(HT: "Vladimir")

In Defense of Rajlich and Rybka, Continued and Concluded

For those interested in the seeing the remainder of Dr. Søren Riis's apologia for Vasik Rajlich, Rybka's programmer, part 3 and the conclusion, part 4, have been published on the ChessBase site.

In Defense of Rajlich and Rybka

In early 2011, Vasik Rajlich was accused by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) of plagiarism in writing his famous chess program Rybka, he was stripped of the world championship titles won with Rybka from 2007 to 2010, and banned for life from ICGA events. (Other than that, I think they liked him.)

It has been quite a while now, but there's a new and vigorous defense of Rajlich by one Dr. Søren Riis against what the author considers ICGA overreach. Two parts are out now (there's a third part coming soon), and they can be read here and here. He makes some interesting points, and it's good that Rajlich has someone defending him.

Thoughts?