Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 08:48:35 01/17/02
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On January 17, 2002 at 10:45:08, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 17, 2002 at 08:03:24, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>Hi >> >>On January 17, 2002 at 07:09:13, Bas Hamstra wrote: >> >>>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. > >Well, library or not, you didn't write/calculate the tables, so it is not really >your program finding the correct moves when it reaches that part of the game. I >think the majority considers chess solved at that level, so there's no good >reason to spend time doing lots of special heuristical programming. >However, it is still cloning IMO ;) > Maybe many games will be Nalimov versus Nalimov. But what about the other end? When creating opening books should one be allowed to look in the ECO to find moves or is this also an issue for stealing information. Why use many hours to analyse openings when you could do the shortcut to copy from ECO or GM games. :) Well games isn't copyrighted but ECO is. Odd Gunnar (ECO=Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings)
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