Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 07:40:30 05/12/05
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On May 12, 2005 at 06:16:29, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On May 11, 2005 at 22:29:40, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>Enjoy life and just read what you want to read and enjoy the people that you you >>like to be with. Life is too short for anything else. > >Mike, you are a very wise man. > > > >> >>Best, >> >>Michael >> >>ps Thank you and Martin for Arena - the best free chess product made thus far >>in this century! > >I must say this to the benefit of science. Nobody ever has researched the source >code of ARENA. Not so. I have gone through the string table for Arena. It is written in Delphi, so it could port to UNIX using Kylix. Here is the list of dlls and binaries referenced: \pifmgr.dll \system32\pifmgr.dll _isdel.exe accuclck.exe advapi32.dll arena.exe Av_BookBuilder.exe BLDINDEX.exe BookBuilder.exe BookEdit.exe cb3dviewer.exe comctl32.dll comdlg32.dll CTL3D32.DLL DGTEBDLL.DLL dos4gw.exe ELOStat.exe explorer.exe gdi32.dll gnuchesr.exe GradualTest.exe HolmesCfg.exe IMM32.DLL install.exe InstallCC.exe kernel32.dll notepad.exe oleaut32.dll PSAPI.dll regedit.exe /s Restarter.exe RICHED32.DLL setup.exe shell32.dll Speedtest\gtest.exe start MSINFO32.exe tail.exe timeseal.exe timestamp.exe uninstall.exe user32.dll vcltest3.dll winboard.exe winmm.dll winmsd.exe wsock32.dll You can see all the custom controls and the formats and pretty much everything about the organization. Arena does not contain amazing new algorithms or anything like that. What Arena represents is thousands and thousands of man-hours of incredibly tedious GUI work. >So far. I just want to mention that during the Patriot debate in >other fora there were opinions that the authenticity of many other software was >never analysed. Simply because nobody had access to the specific products. This >is the same for professional products in computerchess and also for such FREE >works like Arena. What we do know is that the main pieces of computerchess >programming have been used by almost all prtogrammers. There nobody would claim >the term fraud. > >I finish this message with the hint, that in Franks Quisinsky's News pages he >presents an interview with the programmer Fabien T. of the alleged original of >Patriot 2. The interview was led shortly before the Patriot 2 debate came up. I >can only say that Fabien gave very interesting comments on that topic of copying >certain contents of programming a chess software! He can't see the problem...! >But we here produce a public withch-burning. I'm still against such public >attacks against young talents, no matter how wrong they are. Criticising Hsu, a >veritable academic, or attacking Bob, a veritable Professor in Computer >Sciences, this is a completely different thing like to bury the young man from >Bela-Russia. Please excuse my emotional appeal. Patriot has NOT been proven a clone. There is compelling evidence to suggest that it MIGHT be. In the case of Patriot, I think that there is special concern since it is sold
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