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Subject: Re: To Fabien Letouzey - about Toga

Author: Gabor Szots

Date: 11:25:46 03/17/05

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On March 17, 2005 at 13:07:11, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 17, 2005 at 04:31:58, Gabor Szots wrote:
>
>>On March 17, 2005 at 04:26:45, Fabien Letouzey wrote:
>>
>>>On March 17, 2005 at 03:22:06, Gabor Szots wrote:
>>>
>>>>Do you agree that after giving you due credit Toga's "author" can claim that
>>>>"his" engine is his own intellectual product and can be called a new engine?
>>>
>>>I will not try to answer moral questions, and can't answer tricky legal ones
>>>either (others will).  Please feel free to ask technical questions instead (like
>>>how much code is shared between the engines).
>>>
>>>I leave it to every tester whether he should include Toga in his own tournament.
>>> I don't see why I would have a say in the matter, Toga is legal.
>>>
>>>Fabien.
>>
>>Thanks, Fabien. Now, how much code is shared between the engines? :-)
>
>Here are all the differences.  They are very, very minor.
>
(code snipped)

It looks as though, among others, some king safety recognizer part has been
added, which may substantially improve Fruit-Toga's performance. If you take a
look at the games Fruit played recently in my tournament (SzG Swiss 2nd division
12th season) you will see how 4 or 5 times Fruit fell victim to a king attack.



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