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Subject: Re: For Bob, chessbase claims your prog being commercially sold

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 04:05:20 08/28/01

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Simple answer to wheter Crafty is commercial is simple.. Does the author MAKE
ANY MONEY OFF IT?  I don't belive so.  Does Chessbase?  The chessbase version is
released FREE OF CHARGE from the Chessbase webpage.

Now, IMO Gromit is NOT a NON commercial engine, since the most current publicly
available version is ONLY available from teh young talents cd.  This makes it
commercial.

GOliath Light 1.5 is free.
Crafty is free.

On the other hand, is Crafty an Amateur product?  I am not sure it really should
be in that catagory simply due to its qualtiy.  I am sure Dr. Hyatt is a little
above the avg amatuer :)

AHhh my head hurts.


On August 28, 2001 at 06:20:21, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On August 28, 2001 at 05:48:58, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>i think you're thinking too deep. he simply wanted to get rid of
>the questions why gromit could get a world title if it is getting sold
>on the young talents cdrom.
>
>the easiest way to say that this doesn't matter is by saying that all
>programs get sold.
>
>that's how he explained things in the wrong way IMHO.
>
>>On August 28, 2001 at 04:39:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>Now i don't care about gromit in this story, didn't even want to do
>>>effort to translate the stuff, but the ANSWER from Andreas can mean
>>>2 things
>>>   a) Bob can claim money from chessbase
>>>   b) Andreas is lying
>>
>>c) Andreas doesn't like that it is claimed the title should
>>_not_ go to Goliath (and not to Crafty either as Bob has stated)
>>so he is making nonsense points to say it should.
>>
>>--
>>GCP



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