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Subject: Re: Review of ALEXS by Larry Kaufman

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 17:54:20 02/16/99

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On February 16, 1999 at 19:36:13, Fernando Villegas wrote:

<snip>

>Maybe Bionic or Voyager have 99% of components from Crafty, but if the behaviour
>is not like Crafty, then is not Crafty. A chess program is for playing chess and
>so matters of style and strenght are the important ones, no how was done, how
>many new or olds pieces has, etc.

<snip>

This seems very wrong.  For example, I can take Crafty source and add *ONLY TWO
LINES* and make it play completely differently, yet still very strongly.  But, I
CAN NOT claim the program to be my own.  Even though you wouldn't be able to
tell it was Crafty by looking at the games it played, it still would be Crafty.

As Dann said, if I take one of your articles and change a few words, it is still
YOUR article, even if nobody would be able to tell you wrote it.

Jeremiah



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