Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 23:53:38 07/15/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 02:49:44, Russell Reagan wrote: >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? If there are public games played and good moves are extracted from the outcome, I see that as no different from extracting them from GM games. However, if you deliberately try to pump a book (for instance by playing 10,000 blitz games with an intent of recovering the book data) then you are stealing. If a furor has arisen over a single line or perhaps two lines from a book, then I think the complaint is pompous foolishness.
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