Author: Robert Hollay
Date: 22:06:08 11/14/05
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On November 14, 2005 at 22:50:41, Swaminathan wrote: >WOW! > >The Return of the clowns! > >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? > >What are the conditions to be met to release a new Fruit legal clone? >hmm..It's better than creating a chessmaster Personality. > >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. > >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 don't think there are reasons for mocking and making assumptions. AFAIK, Ryan never stated that Fruit Gambit is his own work from scratch. Fruit's licensing allows modifying the sources and it's perfectly legal to experiment with the code and parameters of a GPL program. He could do that at home in secret, but he decided to share his work with us. Even if such an engine cannot participate in events, you can play against it, use it for analisys, or try to modify it to be even stronger! I don't see any wrong with what Ryan does. I think, computer chess is only a hobby for the great majority of us. Regards, Robert
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