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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 16:30:32 04/02/04

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On April 02, 2004 at 18:01:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 02, 2004 at 12:55:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>No, he usually responds within 2 hours for those of us that don't go around
>calling him "a fucking idiot..."

Right and he needs 6 months for example for people like Johan Hutting and i can
list another huge number of european authors there.

Many releases of his FREE software program Celes therefore didn't have EGTB code
even though he got it to work if i understand well.

I'm sure he responds within 5 minutes to the CCC however, as you can see.

Even crying like a baby that converting 'his' EGTBs is illegal.



>
>>
>>>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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