Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:21:30 09/20/05
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On September 20, 2005 at 02:29:26, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>On September 18, 2005 at 17:50:46, K. Burcham wrote:
>
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>>It seems many programs are below the strength of Fruit.
>>It is possible that most programmers now have this source code because it was
>>released.
>>How much of this high level code can be used in existing programs and everyone
>>still call their programs legal.
>>Can it be one line of code, 2 lines of code, 25 lines of code, etc...
>>
>>Also is it possible this code could be scattered throughout the existing program
>>so that when checked by tournament directors, it cannot be detected?
>>
>>kb
>
>The same problem has existed with Crafty for years.
>
>I would suggest that if you take any critical code, and in most chess programs
>all of the search and eval is critical, you've gained a co-author.
>
>bruce
The differences with Crafty and Fruit are big:
a) Fruit is way stronger and kicks butt against commercial software
b) Fruit is real simple to read source code and therefore easy to
expand.
Because of B, even bad programmers can modify Fruit code to their 'own' engine.
That makes the odds for clones of Fruit significantly bigger.
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