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Subject: Re: Why is there so much crafty data in GothicVortex?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 14:41:03 01/09/04

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On January 09, 2004 at 17:37:29, Mikael Bäckman wrote:

>Quite frankly, I got sick of hearing about gothic chess, so I downloaded the
>vortex program to try it out.
>
>I searched the exefile for the sequence 96, 48, 48, 48, 45, 42, 40, 40 which
>happens to be the start of crafty's outside_passed[128] data (at least for
>version 19.3).
>
>I found a match in GothicVertex. When I looked further... I found many matches
>between the programs.
>
>xlate, tropism, temper, passed pawms, isolated pawns, outside pawns, majority,
>piecesquare tables, etc... they all seem to match.
>
>Even the order of data, match the order of the declarations in craty's data.c
>file.
>
>Some of the data seem to be modified for a 10x8 board, like isolani, double and
>passed pawn values.
>
>I hate to point a finger at someone, but... You are licensing the program for
>20$. Did you ask Bob for "the express written permission of the author"?
>
>
>/Mikael

It's gross, but...

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