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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:55:48 04/02/04

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On April 02, 2004 at 12:20:01, Vincent Diepeveen 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?
>
>Are you planning to sue me?
>
>Who says i have a special convertor by the way?
>
>Why wouldn't it be an option in an engine of mine?
>
>Note i always found your claims ridicioulous. Really sick microsoft way of doing
>things.
>
>Your first releases of your egtb code there was no copyright claim anywhere of
>you. It was released for the public.
>
>Then later "for commercial usage" one needed permission.
>
>By the way my commercial diep version will not have a byte of
>your code of course.

I do not think that a lot of people will buy commercial chess programs in the
future because they will be able to get free programs of similiar level.

In the past programmers made their program to make money.
I think that today most of the new programmers do not improve their program to
make money but to make people happy and I will not be surprised to see new free
smarthink or new free gothmog that is significantly better than Ruffian in less
than 2 years.

Uri



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