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Subject: Re: The future of computer chess...

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 04:17:20 08/05/98

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On August 05, 1998 at 03:12:25, Shaun Graham wrote:

>On August 05, 1998 at 01:01:27, Tord Romstad wrote:

>>This problem would be easily solved if all programmers could just spend a
>>couple of hours making their programs xboard/winboard compatible.  This would
>>also solve the autoplay problem.
>
>Well if they were compatible with winboard there copyright protection would be
>blown, so that's out.

I am not sure what you mean by "copyright protection".  If you mean copy
protection, I cannot see why this should be a problem.  A winboard/xboard
compatible program could be copy-protected in exactly the same way as any
other chess program.

Tord



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