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Subject: Re: Why use opening books in machine-machine competitions?

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 01:02:45 11/25/03

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On November 25, 2003 at 03:59:07, Richard Pijl wrote:

Hi Richard,

[...]

> So, you should probably go all the way (forbid all precomputed results in any
> form, also the hardcoded variants without external files) or allow everything
> (that is legal, e.g. considering copyrights), like it is now.

... as I proposed in [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachfair_e.html]:

The size of a chess engine including its used persitant data has to be limited
on approximately 1/4 MB, based on a strongly compressed form which could be
achieved using high-quality packers. This has different reasons. It is not to
provoke any competition e.g. in hiding pre-compressed components, and also the
choice of a programming language thereby might have less effect on the relevant
measuring size. System DLLs (without any relationship to chess) naturally
should not been taken into account.

Regards, Reinhard.



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