Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 05:44:57 03/14/03
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On March 14, 2003 at 08:25:00, José Carlos wrote: >On March 14, 2003 at 06:30:27, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > >> >> >>>>There are lots of TSCP modifications where the author never gave Tom credit. >>>>That sort of move I credit to sheer ignorance, since you are not going to have a >>>>world beater without a major surgery and a good deal of understanding of how a >>>>chess program should work. >> >> >>Hi Dann, >> >>Cloning weak TSCP and improving it is very different from cloning a "finished" >>giant. > > I'm afraid I disagree. Cloning is cloning, no matter how strong the cloned >program is. Well, I'm speaking from a moral point of view. From a legal point of >view, it might be different in the same sense that it's different to steal 1 >euro than to steal 1 million, thought it is debatable in our context. > > José C. > Hi Jose, when you clone Pepito, it remains a Pepito clone. When you clone TSCP, you will have thrown almost all data structures and replaced a bunch of routines by the time you improve it by 200 Elo. By the time you hit +300 Elo, you probably have a complex bitboard engine with no trace of TSCP in it. That is the difference. Regards, Matthias.
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