Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:30:33 03/22/00
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If you take a book and modify the last chapter it could be very different from the original book, but the book's author will kick your butt. You can actually get in significant trouble if you take a few paragraphs from someone else's book and pass them off as your own. Anyone can rewrite an eval function an fiddle with search extensions. And the resulting program will play very differently. But it is not entirely your program, because there is a lot of effort invested in the surrounding chess engine structures. I think it is necessary to credit the original author as co-author, in all cases involving, for instance, Crafty. I think that it is possible to have started from something simpler, like GnuChess or TSCP, and subsumed everything by now. It would be harder to do this with Crafty. I think that the parts interdepend more and you can't simply replace them without replacing the underlying religion. bruce
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