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Subject: Re: Crafty crafty crafty

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 19:31:04 05/14/04

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On May 14, 2004 at 21:27:09, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Hence, to simply use someone else's
>chess opening book would be illegal.  But to have some of the same lines is
>totally without problems.

Where do you draw the line? I imagine that when a book maker sees a new good
line from another book in a tournament game that he adds it to his own book. On
the other end of the spectrum, someone could reverse engineer any opening book
format, or play many games and get many of the lines from a book. The only
differences I see are:

1. intent
2. manual vs. automated milking of another book

Manual milking of a book seems to be acceptable because it can't occur at a fast
enough rate to copy a large portion of another person's book. Or maybe it is
possible if someone worked very hard, but then you get into the intent of that
person.



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