Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:18:13 06/26/04
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On June 26, 2004 at 14:10:27, Mike Byrne wrote: >On June 26, 2004 at 09:29:05, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I want to know if discussion about a program that can play every game including >>chess is not allowed here including discussions about the question >>if it is legal to write a program that plays every game or if the programmer of >>zillion of games is allowed to improve his program to make it stronger in most >>games or if another programmer is allowed to write a program with free source >>code that can play games that the user define in a similiar way to zillion of >>games(No special code for a specific game). >> >>Please do not answer the questions that I give before the moderators will answer >>if it is allowed to discuss about it. >> >>I could ask the moderators by email but I prefered to ask here because >>I think that it is important that other people will also know what is allowed. >> >>Uri > > >It is really hard to answer a hypothetical question regarding a hypothetical >scenario without knowing exactly what the planned discussion is about. Therefore >I cannot attempt even to answer your question directly regarding a hypothetical >discussion. > >The best answer I can give you is to ask to you review the charter and if you >believe the topic fits - go ahead and post. > >http://www.talkchess.com/ccc_charter.html > >If somebody decides to complain about your discussion, we will take a look a >look at it. If the post do not contain vulgar laugage and nobody "officially" >complains via email moderator >for(http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/moderate.html) and if you believe the >discussion meets the charter, your chances of having a successfull discussion >are very high in my opinion. > > >Best, > >Michael I only want to make clear what is allowed in this board(it is not that I want to discuss about a specific program now). After you decided not to allow discussions about a specific game that I do not want to mention its name not to give it unnecessary advertisment it is not clear what is allowed. If a program is able to play many games including chess then it is clear that discussing about the program is on topic because it can play chess. On the other hand it seems that discussion about the program is not allowed because it is able to play games that discussions about them are not allowed and discussion about the question if it is legal to release a program that is able to play the game as freeware or commercial program is not allowed. zillion of games was done before the patent on the specific game but based on my understanding it is not clear if it is allowed to release future programs that can play the same game and it also means that it is not clear if improvement of zillion of games by the same programmer is allowed by the rules Uri
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