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Subject: Patent on chess moves

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 09:26:14 06/20/03

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>If I were a GM and had to live from my tournament games, I would work for the
>protection of my game scores! It is crazy, that we regard the scores as
>freeware. Only because we can eaisily copy the moves, these moves are NOT free.
>Of course the move e4 is free, but the information that I played it against
>Kasparov is NOT free. You should pay for it.
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>Anonymous players or spectators who distribute my moves would be hit by the law
>of copyright because I have the right over my moves in a game.
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>Look, people often have difficulties to understand: they say moves are not
>copyrighted. I say that the specific moves of a game ARE copyrighted and
>original. We should support the lives of our GM.
>
>Rolf Tueschen




I even go a bit further and say the moves played by a GM should not only be
copywrighted, but also patented !
Any person who wants to play some of the moves should pay a patent fee.
The patent should also cover moves played by strong computer programs.

/Matthias.






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