Author: Jeroen Noomen
Date: 09:09:30 08/25/02
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On August 25, 2002 at 11:45:57, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: The tablebases are free to use, so it is not a problem that everyone can use them. As far as the other nice features of f.e. the CB GUI are concerned: They don't affect the results of the program in tournaments. So there is also no problem. But if a program may use any available commercial book (and others don't!) we get a very strange situation. This gives some programs a huge advantage over others, which is not a fair treat. And I am mostly speaking about all the other programmers who DO spent a lot of time on their books and tuning. Why should they have a big disadvantage when somebody else says 'hey, I am not going to spent a second on the book, I just take something that is on the market'? Therefore the rules for the WCCC were changed by the ICGA and IMO rightly so. Best regards, Jeroen >On the other hand, the CB commercial engines have been using these features for >a long time without anyone complaining as far as I know. Why should gromit be a >so terribly different case here ? > >Nevertheless, I can understand that this is difficult to accept for the book >making people. >Perhaps they should be asked by any tournament director whether they agree to >the use of their book by ANY engine. > >Regards, >Uli >> >>Jeroen
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