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Subject: Re: To anyone who has ever automatically created an opening book

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:59:46 11/15/01

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On November 14, 2001 at 11:36:24, John Merlino wrote:

>>Why don't you guys just buy the use of some better PGN-reading code?
>>
>>Dave
>
>Buy?
>
>You have no idea how hard it is to get any sort of spending approved. It's a
>two-step process (both steps have to go through Paris) to just get approval to
>hire a temporary scripter for two months....
>
>...and then we have to go through the approval process to get him a computer....
>
>Ubi Soft runs EVERYTHING through Paris, which is certainly their right. However,
>it does make it difficult sometimes to accomplish certain tasks that we used to
>take for granted.

An alternative is to take a look at some freely available open source
programs and ask the author if you can use their code.

I suspect most would allow it for free.

--
GCP



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