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Subject: Re: ElChinito,Crafty /Fruit,Toga

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 09:14:30 09/04/05

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On September 04, 2005 at 11:13:37, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On September 04, 2005 at 10:37:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 04, 2005 at 10:29:44, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>>
>>>On September 04, 2005 at 10:27:40, Madhavan wrote:
>>>
>>>>How much percentage does Elchinito contain Crafty's code?
>>>>
>>>>If it's lesser than 95%,Elchinito should be tested,as Toga is being
>>>>tested,results reported about Toga are hefty
>>>>
>>>>Some people claim Toga contain almost 99% or nearly 100% of Fruit.I'm not saying
>>>>Toga should not be tested,What I'm trying to say is that Elchinito should also
>>>>be tested because the last version wa sproven to be much stronger than
>>>>Crafty[was it?]
>>>
>>>The difference is that Crafty is not GPL and a clone based on Crafty source code
>>>is ILLEGAL.
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Andy
>>
>>People are allowed to change the source of Crafty if they make the changes
>>public.
>
>Only for personal use, or you have the written permission of the author.
>
> *  All rights reserved.  No part of this program may be reproduced in any     *
> *  form or by any means, for other than your personal use, without the        *
> *  express written permission of the author.  This program may not be used in *
> *  whole, nor in part, to enter any computer chess competition without        *
> *  written permission from the author.  Such permission will include the      *
> *  requirement that the program be entered under the name "Crafty" so that    *
> *  the program's ancestry will be known.
>

But who really cares?
I bet large parts of Crafty code are in the commercial program "Chess vision
trainer" which was sold as shareware.
I had noticed file names like books.bin,book.bin,game.001,position.lrn,etc... in
the program folder.
I saw no mention of Crafty or Robert Hyatt whatsoever.
Btw, the program was utter crap. Wiped it immediately from my HD.

Michael



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