Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 07:44:23 07/25/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 06:26:14, Uri Blass wrote: >I was surprised to see that all the cheap engines that chessbase is selling are >free engines. > >I was also surprised that they sell old version of Sos from march 2000 but maybe >they believe that customers that buy engines instead of downloading them >deserve to get a worse version > >See http://www.chessbase.com/shop/index.asp?cat=Engines+direct&user=&coin= > >I wonder if the authors also earn money from it. >If few people want to support programmers by buying free programs because they >feel uncomfortable with downloading them when the author gets nothing from it >then there is no problem with it but I expect honest company to tell the >customers that the things that they buy are free to download and if they buy >them then it is only if they want to give some support to the programmers. > >Some more questions: >1)Can We say that Sos and crazyBishop are professional engines because they are >sold by chessbase and does it mean that the authors needed to pay 500$ >registration fee to participate in WCCC? > >2)Does chessbase need permission of the author in order to sell free engines or >maybe they can decide tommorow to sell Crafty? > >Uri 1. The engines being sold are about 4 years old - no updates since initial release. 2. The are chessbase native engines and they only work in Chessbase GUI. At the time, Fritz 7 was not supporting UCI engines, current Fritz GUI supports UCI engines. 3. In the "old" Olympic definition, the programmers were paid and thus professional - but the authors are clearly not making their living by their chess programming - so I'm ok with still calling them amatuers. 4. There are really no rules with respect to your question - so anyone group can interpert the facts as they see them. There is also no chess programming oversight body to enforce the rules = so Chessbase sets (interperts) the rules as they see them, the ICCC as they see them, the SSDF as they see etc etc. I guess you say with chess programming - it is still the wild wild west. Did we ever see the alledged crafty clone code from List. I'm still waiting for that one.
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