Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:05:35 09/06/98
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On September 06, 1998 at 10:57:02, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >On September 06, 1998 at 00:18:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: > ><snip> > >>>(5) It would be nice if UAB would give Bob the "go-ahead" to market Crafty. >> >>There is no "go-ahead" to get. It is solely my intellectual property, and >>can be sold, given away, or whatever, without any control by UAB. Giving it >>away was *my* choice, as I've said before, *not* something dictated by my >>employer... they think the "freeware" approach is great due to the interest >>it has produced... but there would be no problems of any kind should I choose >>to sell it either. It just won't happen... >> >>particularly in light of the poll response.. :) > >(1) Bob, I hope you don't get thrown off by the poll. The problem is not with >the CCC membership itself. The poll itself was badly flawed. >(2) In the first place, the poll was ill-conceived and should have been "run by >you" before being posted. Someone apparently exercised very poor judgement and >owes you an apology. Steve sent me an idea of what was going to be asked. I responded with my normal "not for sale, ever"... but I see no reason why I need to approve any sort of poll question... After some thought, I only wish that the poll had asked the questions slightly differently, as it could have provided more interesting data... such as how many have played crafty somewhere vs how many have played any other specific program? How many have played it on ICC or FICS or chess.net or EICS of whatever, as compared to other programs running there. etc... >(3) You should be content with the knowledge that your intentions were >excellent. You only have to answer to yourself, and if religeous, to God! Always the case. I'm my most severe critic when it comes to computer chess. :) I just don't argue with myself *here* in public.. :) >(4) You have made a very significant contribution to the field of chess software >programming by creating your code and making it available to the public on the >internet. I do not know how to estimate the impact that has had, but am sure >that it is FAR from negligible. You know that, and that knowledge should make >you feel good. >(5) Polls are often very misleading, as this one was. If the questions asked >are not very carefully constructed, they can give very misleading results. If >the poll had been constructed properly, it would have shown that there is >widespread appreciation on CCC for the efforts you have made w.resp.to Crafty. >A pity that the poll did not ask the right questions. >(6) The work you have done with Crafty on the various chess servers has >undoubtedly also had a very positive impact.
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