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Subject: Re: Deep 9 incident, my engines cloned list

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 09:13:51 03/14/03

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On March 14, 2003 at 09:53:40, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>>...
>>
>>Comet- GNU Chess Clone
>>
>
>It's certainly true that Comet owes a lot to good old GnuChess 3.1.
>I had been inspired a lot by inspecting its code.
>
>Corresponding credits are given in its readme-files and elsewhere (internet
>pages, communications with ICCA before wmccc participations, etc.).
>
>I also had occasion to thank an author of the GNU Chess team personally.
>
>However, I do think that similarity between their code pieces is quite limited.
>Eval and search are very different. Move generation is a kind of optimized
>GnuChess move generation.
>
>I don't see any illegal or illegitimate acts from my side.
>Neither do i think, that the term "clone" is appropriate.
>
>Uli



Hi Uli,

Comet is NOT a GnuChess clone.
Pablo simply does not know what a clone is.

/Matthias.












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