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Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of Rebel books

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 23:49:47 04/30/02

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On April 30, 2002 at 23:28:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 30, 2002 at 17:52:01, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On April 30, 2002 at 16:31:01, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>>This isn't a copyright issue, its not even a legal issue in the traditional
>>>sense.  It is about the rules for a particular competition, namely the ICCA
>>>World Computer Chess Championship.  If the rules say that you can't use someone
>>>elses book in the tournament (and its not even clear that they do say this),
>>>then you can't use someone elses book regardless of what copyright says.
>>
>>You have understood the problem, you are not going to fight your own opening
>>book in world championship event.
>>
>>Ed
>>

Hi Bob,

>Of course, this begs the _other_ issue.  Do I have to "fight" Jeroen's book
>_two_ times in a single tournament?  That hardly seems fair either.  Yet he
>does the book for Rebel and Tiger...

Yep, we had all that in the programmer email discussion and made an agreement
about that. Since you won't see Rebel competing any longer the problem does not
exist anymore.

Ed



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