Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 10:48:33 08/28/04
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On August 28, 2004 at 13:26:46, Andrew Williams wrote: >On August 28, 2004 at 11:44:30, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>On August 28, 2004 at 10:23:53, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >> >>>Hi there, >>> >>>Eugenio sent us the following open letter. >>>The letter is public on Arena webpages (News-Ticker). >>> >>>Best >>>Frank >>> >>>Eugenio wrote: >>> >>>--- >>> >>>"I've used crafty source to implement my own program ElChinito. >>> >>>My public and sincere apologize to Bob Hyatt not to mention that in ElChinito's >>>readme file and copyright notes and did not ask consequently for permission. I >>>will ensure that ElChinito is not longer public available for download and plays >>>any public tournaments. >>> >>>I've inform ICGA and French Computer Chess Association about this issue to >>>accept their decision, and discalificate Chinito from the played events. >>> >>>My apologize to Frank Q. for the damages caused. >>> >>>My apologize to any one of the tester and downloaders of Arena. >>> >>>Eugenio Castillo." >> >> >>My respect to Eugenio Castillo for his late apology. >>It seems that he had a hard time and a long fight to decide so. >> >>It was a severe offence of Eugenio, i understand that routines like NextMove >>have another quality than some cray like bitscan routines or moveInput. >> >>Eugenio obviously used Crafty framework as a toolbox for the bitboard >>infrastructure and parts of move generation and even minor parts of eval. He >>was, probably due his naivety, not fully aware of the cloning issue or did >>repress it in some way, after receiving no answer from Bob after some tries. >>Didn't Dann Corbit mention Eugenio mailed Bob about that issue, but Bob didn't >>receive for what reasons ever? >> >>It is difficult to quantify for me, but it seems that most of ElChinitos >>strength was not based on Crafty but on Eugenio's own search and most parts of >>it's evaluation. >> >>So i respect his decision to don't make ElChinito open source and i suggest to >>give ElChinito a second chance after some time, until Eugenio assures that no >>more parts of crafty are inside - IMHO. >> >>Gerd > >I think you're being WAY too lenient here, Gerd. You must be a nicer person than >me! > >Andrew Hi Andrew, no, but what do you suggest? A life time ban? A therapy by Rolf? Cheers, Gerd
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