Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:03:02 11/27/03
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On November 27, 2003 at 16:58:45, Bob Durrett wrote: >On November 27, 2003 at 15:17:51, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1330 > >There is no way of knowing the extent to which the other programs were >influenced by Bob Hyatt's open source code. Does anybody think that there is a >chess engine programmer anywhere that has not examined the Crafty code? > >Let them demand that Fritz, Shredder, Junior, HIARCS, and all of the tournament >participants make their source code available to the organizers of this >tournament. See how far that would go!!!! > >Bob D. I'm hardly a "pro-ICGA" person as most everybody here knows. However, an important point: It _has_ been allowed for people to play with programs that are derived from other programs. One example was "Gunda-1" in the 1996 WMCCC event. It was _clearly_ 99% Crafty. I didn't like its participation, but it was a program entered by the sponsoring University and the ICCA felt obligated to let them in. So entering a program with borrowed code is apparently OK, which I don't particularly agree or disagree with. IE air is 20% oxygen. That works for me. It could be higher or lower without me caring at all. :) I think the point is that the author didn't respond. And if he did borrow parts of Crafty, it wasn't specified on his entry form. However, "guilty until proven innocent" seems _way_ draconian IMHO. This is a catch-22. A bad one.
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