Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 23:49:44 07/15/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 02:09:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >>So if after a comp tournament we all go home and study--study---study the >>opening lines used, and incorporate something played by another program in our >>own program, some say this is stealing, or not the correct thing to do. > >Whoever said that? If a program plays a line in a public game, then that >becomes public knowledge. For instance, the SSDF games are all free game for >opening book inclusion. What if a GM friend of yours showed you a new line he was thinking about? You are well within your rights to play it and/or add it to your opening book. Along that same line of thinking, why is it wrong if someone buys Rebel-Tiger and then plays through the opening book and gets a lot of good lines from it? Sure, maybe it's wrong, but why? Russell
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