Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 05:03:24 01/17/02
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Hi On January 17, 2002 at 07:09:13, Bas Hamstra wrote: [snip] >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. I guess most would agree that the TB-case is a special case. :) I see the tablebases more as an independent library. If Nalimov would have written a chess engine, where TB was just one part and would have made it public like Bob does with Crafty, then copying just this part of his engine would be a (partial) clone for me. Nalimov didn't do it that way though and it is my understanding that if you ask him nicely, he will give you permission to use his code in your engine and he would not see this as a clone. On a related note: It wouldn't hurt, if someone would really not depend on Nalimov's TBs but code their own. Who know - maybe they contain some nasty bugs or something, no-one found out so far because everyone uses them. ;) Sargon Sargon
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