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Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of Rebel books

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:48:35 05/01/02

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On May 01, 2002 at 02:49:47, Ed Schröder wrote:

>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

That only solves your case.  What about ChessBase?

The door is still wide open...

Alex.  Sandro.  Etc...





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