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Subject: Is this Legal or Is It Hacking

Author: Nolan Denson

Date: 13:43:19 03/04/00


I wanted some day to write my own chess program.  I far from that so i went out
and bought a book called Learn Visual C++ 6 and 24 hours). I don't know what
compiler it has but it came with one.  I started out by writing simple programs
that the book gave as examples.  But i got tired of that and want to start
looking at some chess codes.  Now just 16 hours ago i had no idea what a code
looks like or even how to compile it.  I went to the Crafty site because i knew
it came with the code.  So i loaded it up and started looking at things that
were going on with the program. I then purposely generated some errors to see
what happens.  Then I fixed the errors and continue to change things that
wouldn't create errors.  Then i recompile it and i got no errors .. but 370
warnings (But the original Crafty had those as well).  I changed things just to
see how the program will play and to get an idea of what the programmers are
doing.

Now i would like to Know

1. Can i play this on Chess Servers.
2. Is this what a crafty clone really is.
3. Must it say Crafty when beginning of play (which i have no idea of how to
   change now.
4. If this isn't legal i will stop it now.
5. Must the source code be availiable. ( I am doing this via Visual Studio)
6. If i stumbbling on to something Dr. Hyatt Gets all the Glory.
7. I am only having fun.

Thanks All



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