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Subject: Re: more of the same...

Author: Mike S.

Date: 17:08:44 03/16/04

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On March 16, 2004 at 11:57:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 16, 2004 at 11:03:36, Jonas Bylund wrote:
>
>>Was there any evidence? did i miss something?
>>
>>Jonas
>
>There may be disagreement about the word clone but there was evidence that
>something is wrong with it and it is not exactly an original program.

There was no evidence, only very weak pseudo-evidence not even sufficient for a
serious suspicion. Classes names and variables names don't prove anything.

I've also read, that unlike Crafty List is not using bitboards (which doesn't
prove it can't be a clone in some parts, I know, but it strongly indicates that
the clone suspicion hasn't much sense when there is such a fundamental design
difference).

Basically the tendency is, that some people continue the "clone" talk again and
again simply for the reason that ICGA has disqualified it, because those people
seem to trust that it is a very serious official organzation which would never
do that in an unfounded and unfair way. But the judgement of those who raised
the protest was more realistic :-)

Computerchess has become a tough and sometimes dirty competition.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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