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Subject: Re: Tord or Reinhard, care to translate? :)

Author: Ed Trice

Date: 18:02:34 06/18/04

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>
>WOW - this after having been (temporarily) granted for free the right to use
>quite significant parts of chessprogram Crafty for your "Gothic Chess" engine
>experiment by Robert Hyatt.
>
>What's next? I think I'll try to patent GEN for all XxY boards ( FEN is a subset
>that will soon be illegal) - but it also has a pope piece I just invented (
>queen combined with knight, but it can also capture e.p. on Fridays).
>
>I think this will also be the end of diagrams at CCC  - unless Steve Schwartz
>buys some cheap licences ( I'll make a special price for him at 1$/year)). I
>hope anyone who is sceptical about the legal value of this patent is
>well-prepared to face a lawsuit in Germany ;)
>


[yawn].

That was perhaps the most ridiculous post I have seen so far.

You should be a politician, you are probably in love with the sound of your own
voice.



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