Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 21:28:30 04/30/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 00:22:06, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >An computer opening book (handmade) is actually analysis in binary format. I >believe that is quite far from being "just" a collection of moves. > >Regards, >Miguel Maybe you're right, but maybe not. I seriously doubt that anything in any opening book anywhere is 100% original. If there is nothing original in the opening book, then it's questionable whether it's capable of being copyrighted. If a person wrote original analysis, they could copyright it. If a second person wrote identical analysis, they can't claim that as their own. In the case of opening books I think that anyone today who creates an opening book is not creating anything original. They are borrowing from decades or more of knowledge that is publicly well known. Even if you can convince everyone that the opening book is analysis in binary form, you'll have an additional obstacle of convincing them that anything in the opening book is original. In chess, there isn't much new in the openings. That is not to say that there is nothing left to discover in the opening, but until someone shows that they have found something original, it's hard to make the argument that it should be copyrighted. If someone finds an incredible innovation in 1. h3 or something, that might be original, but anything that starts with 1. e4, 1. d4, 1. c4, 1. Nf3, etc. etc. etc. is probably not original. Russell
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