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Subject: Re: The Return Of The Clones

Author: Ryan B.

Date: 20:32:58 11/14/05

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On November 14, 2005 at 22:50:41, Swaminathan wrote:

>WOW!
>
>The Return of the clowns!
>

I did not like the movie.

>I never expected that there would be a new releases of clones of Fruit!
>Here is the new Legal clone of Fruit called Gambit Fruit!
>
>Has anyone tested it?
>

http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/136584.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lefouduroi/tournois/tournois.htm

>What are the conditions to be met to release a new Fruit legal clone?
>hmm..It's better than creating a chessmaster Personality.
>

I think it being open source and sending an email to the person who wrote the
GPL program it is enough.  And what is wrong with CM personalitys?  No need to
look down on someone elses fun.

>If I'm right regarding the legal cone releases,That the program would never be
>allowed to participate in any events,I've confirmed this from Bob and Uri at ICC
>during the Crafty-Sjeng WCCC Match.
>

This is right, clones can not play in events.  I also plan on releasing an open
source program that is not a clone (but is much weaker) in the future that will
be alowed to play in events.

>Only less number of testers would test clones.
>If you make a legal clone out of 1900 ELO,No one would even test!I mean no one!
>and If you make a clone out of Fruit!with elo averaging 2650,Most testers bother
>to spend their time letting Fruit clones to play in their long tome control
>tourneys,beat the original Fruit etc
>some Students with a degree in computer science are very licky as they would
>enjoy having a chess engine which he didn't program the whole code but just
>modified very little from the fruit code and he makes a statement that his
>engine is a legal clone of Fruit available for free download with source.Soon he
>will let his friends know that he actually had written a chess engine!hmmm...but
>who cares

I think if someone wanted to take full credit for a clone and be dishonest he or
she would change the name to something unrelated to what is being cloned.
Notice than in both Gambit Fruit and Toga that Fabians name is the first on the
list as it should be.  Maybe I just do not understand the last part of your
post.



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