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Subject: Re: Gothic Chess: TSCP wins

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:08:27 01/20/04

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On January 20, 2004 at 15:53:16, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>On January 20, 2004 at 15:21:55, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>On January 20, 2004 at 14:43:57, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>>
>>>:-) I am happy :-)
>>>
>>
>>Good work, well done.
>>Do you intend to give the TSCPGothic executable (EXE not code) to the public?
>
>Since Gothic Chess is patented by Ed Trice I will talk it over with him.
>But I think it's not a big problem for Ed as long as some license info is
>included.
>
>I can also brake out all Gothic Chess rules and make the source available for
>others. Then it can serve as basis for people who like to add advanced
>algorithms to a source that is still easy to understand or for someone who wants
>to know how to add PVS for example with all full details.
>
>I use still some parts of TSCP:
>-xboard interface
>-board printing
>-board structure
>-move generating
>
>I would like to have permission of Tom Kerrigan if it is ok if I do this.
>Maybe Tom likes me to rename the engine then for example in:
>- TSACP The Simple Advanced Chess Program
>- TSCP++
>- something else
>- something else 2.0

It is a very impressive result.  I expect that Tom will at least want a name
change of some sort.

I once made some changes to TSCP and Tom asked me not to make them public as a
new version of TSCP.

He said that it departed from the spirit of keeping the engine very simple.

I have had similar responses from Marcel van Kervinck reguarding MSCP.



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