Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 12:19:40 01/01/04
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On January 01, 2004 at 14:34:41, Ed Trice wrote: >[...] >Trust me, it would be worth the licensing fee of $1 (terms and restrictions >apply) to get the license from me rather than try and circumvent the issue with >loopholes. > >I am not looking to milk people for licenses, but according to Patent Law I must >persue every instance of infringement that is encountered. Well, I am still wondering about that. But would it not be a good idea to supply all participants of your challenge with a free licence. This would make things easier, especially regarding the fact, that some sort of patents are not valid in Europe or Germany. I am not experienced in handling licences of patents, and most programmers of chess engines also would not be. >>How many active players are known? Will it really make sense to engage? >There are at least 237 people who have played 4 or more games at correspondence >time controls at the BrainKing.com website since April of 2003. The latest >rating list is... > >http://www.GothicChess.org/brain_king.html > >There have been over 3000 games played that you can sample. Worldwide, there are >about 35,000 players if we go buy Gothic Chess set sales so far (since the year >2000). Well I am asking, because of having stopped a kind of 10x8 superchess and instead focussing on Fischer Random Chess (which is not patented as far as I know). See for that at [http://www.rescon.de/Compu/schachsuper_e.html]. So I am afraid to may be frustrated working on Gothic Chess beginning with legality problems though being additionally within a real minority !? Is it allowed to ask from which sponsor the price money has been established? Regards, Reinhard.
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