Author: Keith Evans
Date: 18:47:35 06/18/04
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On June 18, 2004 at 21:26:10, Ed Trice wrote: >They cannot discuss playing the game of Capablanca Chess. > >>It seems you've been saying such an engine with a position setup feature would >>be illegal, or did I misunderstand that? > >There is more to a chess engine than a setup feature. The king safety code in >Capablanca Chess is very, very different from Gothic Chess. > >If the program has internal heuristics to deal with Gothic patterns, it is in >violation of the patent. The whole point of the CapaGNU Modified match was to >demonstrate that a Capa program, designed only to play Capa's chess, would get >pulverized by one with Gothic-specific algorithms. So if you play Capablanca chess against CapaGnu it scores much better? Or is it just that it is a weak engine overall. If it's just a weak engine overall, which is what I believe based on running it, then you are not demonstrating your point.
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