Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:47:27 05/13/05
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On May 12, 2005 at 19:00:23, Uri Blass wrote: [snip] >I think that it is impossible to prove that shredder does not contain forbidden >parts and that people can have enough talent to appear innocent. Nothing is impossible. I think (however) that it is a bad idea to assume guilt and we should look into wrongdoing only if compelling evidence surfaces that it might be happening. >This is the reason that a lot of people are against open source code chess >programs. Probably, the chess papers that are published in the JICCA are 100 times more "harmful" than the open source programs. Will you look at Faile and add 100 Elo to Movei? I do not think so. Similarly, Shredder and other engines are far above the amateur engines. In the case of Fruit, Fabien has some really brilliant ideas in his engine. But I do not think that the commercial programmers will use any of his code. I think probably all of them or at least most of them will look at his code, understand what he did, and then make their engines much stronger. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that. Perhaps the competition in chess is very unhealthy. It seems that at this point it is supressing innovation rather than driving it.
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