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Subject: Re: Why dont engines support the egtb format that Chessmaster uses?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 09:55:53 04/02/04

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On April 02, 2004 at 12:51:58, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On April 02, 2004 at 12:42:36, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>
>>On April 02, 2004 at 11:46:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>
>>>Vincent, I did not gave you permission to use *my* code in your convertor, or I
>>>am missing something?
>>
>>I am using your code in my engine (with your and Andrew Kadatch's permission).
>>Built into the engine, there is a function, which you can call a converter. It
>>converts (typicall once at setup time) most of the 3 and 4-men tables to an own
>>W/D/L format (they are loaded to RAM then, for fast access).
>>
>>I never thought about it, but now I feel unsecure. Can you comment on this?
>>
>>I also posted a W/D table (as C source) for KPK here - this table was generated
>>from kpk.nbw/nbb
>>
>>Regards,
>>Dieter

>Dieter, you -- and *everybody* else who ever asked me -- have permission to use

Not at all, you take on average 2 years to reply to email questions from
authors.

>the code. The only compensation I (and Andrew Kadatch) ever asked was 2 copies
>of program from commercial authors. One for me, other for some chess-playing
>friends of mine.
>
>Vincent never asked the permission. Somebody who uses (weaked) Vincent's engine
>in the commercial product asked me, and got the permission.
>Thanks,
>Eugene



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