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Subject: Re: Djenghis in cct4

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 04:09:13 01/17/02

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>While it's probably not that easy to come up with a useful definition of
>cloning, which the majority accepts, your example sounds rather clear to me.
>
>-if you copy code from someone (like the whole move generator) it's cloning
>(you'd also have to copy Bob's board representation etc etc etc)
>-if you have a look at Bob's code to see how he handles ep generation or what
>kind of search extensions he uses, it's not cloning (afterall that's one reason
>why Bob's Crafty is freely available with source, and I'm sure it was helpful

That would kill the tournament entirely. Most of the tablebase supporting
programs copy the entire source of the TB module and are by that definition
clones.

Greetings,
Bas.




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