Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:00:03 01/08/04
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On January 08, 2004 at 09:54:42, Ed Trice wrote: >Since there is all of this discussion about the patent, etc.. > >I am dropping $1 into the Dr. Robert Hyatt Gothic Chess licensing fund. > >You now have a license to make a Gothic Chess program for the next 366 days. You >can give it away for free if you like, but you cannot sell it. This license is >non-transferable. > >After the license has expired, you and I can talk about relicensing it. > >So, after all of the heated discussion, will you do it? Why would I? To do this would require multiple things: (1) a reason for wanting to play YACV (yet another chess variant). ICC already has dozens. No major tournaments. No major competitions. No major organizations. So what would be the driving force? (2) who would bother with a 1-year license? What would the fee be after that? In my case, I really wouldn't care. Here is your challenge for the week: I am going to study your game. A friend and I are going to sit down and start playing gothic chess against each other. Your mission is to _stop_ us. If you can. I don't believe you can, myself, with any patent process known to man. If you can't stop that, then you are going to be unable to prevent me from writing a program that can simply play the game against someone else, just like Crafty does for real chess. But this is all moot, as chess has a _long_ life left in it, with a lot of inertia behind it. What would be the driving force for anyone to write yet another variant program? IE the idea of "loser's chess" is, IMHO as a chess player, much more interesting. As is "crazyhouse". Neither of which requires a new board, new pieces, or new moves...
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