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Subject: Re: Patent on chess moves

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 15:45:10 06/20/03

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On June 20, 2003 at 12:26:14, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>>
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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.
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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
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>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.

If I go further when analyzes from theoreticans are used by GM's and they should
give a fee included the people who recieve the games and use them in their games
And the company's of the chessprograms who use these moves in their openings
books
And other products.

I would be filty rich by now.

If you would  copyright the moves now you would steel a lot of work from the
original players and theoreticans.



Marc van Hal




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