Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:27:09 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 08:18:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 13, 2004 at 23:29:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On May 13, 2004 at 14:40:37, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>After 4 airplanes get hijacked and all shot down or crash (2 dutch ones and 2 >>german ones) and a suicide bomber also takes out Omid & Amir & Shay at the rare >>occassion that both were at the same time at some market place, negotiating to >>get another sponsor for the world champs 2004; only then crafty's chances rise >>from 0% to 1%, because that 3d dutch airplane not shot down, not only brings the >>icga tournament direction, but also Johan de Koning who grabs his chance to get >>the title by just winning from crafty. With his PDA he then beats crafty and >>movei and gets world champ. >> >>by the way there are a few beta 8 way opteron NUMA machines where crafty might >>run at, but 64 processor clusters like bob soon has one himself, crafty won't >>run any soon at. >> >>However even if it would run there, as we know in case of a disaster Johan will >>grab his chance and beat it with his PDA. >> >>Of course if Johan loses he still can demand crafty to get excluded when the >>always active uncle Bob has typed over for his new secret bookc.bin lines from >>commercial chess program books. > >I've never copied a commercial book. I don't have access to a single commercial >program. > >I believe it was _you_ in the past that claimed to have hijacked commercial >books. I do my own. > >> >>Just go check it out ;) > > >Feel free to prove that any lines I played in the last CCT event came from a >commercial program's book. Just like you proved that I wrote a JICCA article on >the crafty parallel search. Just like you proved... Well, you really have >_never_ proven anything so forget about it... Chess moves are public domain. Having lines from a chess book is illegal? Then every chess game is in copyright violation. The moves have to come from somewhere. People open the same books to find the lines, I imagine. An entire collection is copyrightable. So (for instance) I can give Bobby Fischer's chess games to someone or put them into my PGN collection. But I cannot take the games from "60 Memoriable games" as a distinct, annotated set and claim that particular set as mine. Hence, to simply use someone else's chess opening book would be illegal. But to have some of the same lines is totally without problems. "Your book has 1. e4? you dirty sneak thief! It's in mine too!" "And 1. d4?! And 1. Nc3?! Why, you dirty, rotten, low down snake in the grass!" ;-)
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