Author: Slater Wold
Date: 13:01:33 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 14:42:50, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >During the last 6 - 12 months I have noticed a trend that there are very clear >indications that non-commercial programmers of chess programs make use of (parts >of) commercially available books. As I was in Maastricht during the WMCCC in >2001, lots of speculations and complaints were heard about this topic. From >several sources I know that also the Rebel books have been ‘hacked’ by people (I >will not mention their names, I am sure they know themselves whom I am talking >about). As the Rebel books are my lifework I want to put a very clear statement >in this forum. > >The Rebel books have been developped by me during a period of almost 14 years. >Not only is it handmade, it also contains lots of stuff you will not find in >other books. In the past it has happenend a few times that chess programs were >caught as not being made by the programmer himself. Examples are Quick Step back >in 1989, Greif, the several Crafty clones. As we can see from todays rules by >the ICCA, such programs are not tolerated anymore. And in my view this is fully >correct. > >Jeroen Noomen >Bookauthor for Rebel and Chess Tiger I can understand your frustration. You've worked just as hard as Ed or Christophe on Rebel/Tiger. No doubt your books add a considerable amount of Elo to these programs, and I am sure Ed and Christophe are very appreciative of that. However, I must warn you that laying claim to a series of chess opening moves is not going to be easy to defend. You cannot copyright moves in chess, as you cannot copyright dance moves. While you can copyright a mvs book, you are actually only copyrighting the format. Again, you cannot copyright chess moves. I think anyone found 'hacking' a chess program, or its book, should face a severe punishment. Anyone claiming something is their, when in fact it is not, should be punished. I am not defending these people, I am simply stating the fact that it would be easier to encrypt the books, than to go after those stealing it.
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