Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:23:58 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 02:55:58, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On December 12, 2005 at 02:45:21, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote: > >>On December 12, 2005 at 02:31:26, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >> >>>On December 11, 2005 at 20:59:08, Daniel Mehrmannn wrote: >>> >>>>Hello, >>>> >>>>I was long thinking if i really should post that and some people giving me >>>>warnings >>>>to not do that, but i think i must do that to feel better. >>> >>>hmm... i don't buy that Daniel. I don'i understand you reasoning - as an >>>ex-member of the Greif team aka Nimzo clone. If you search for Vasik's post here >>>in the past it is rather obvious that Rybka is a very own and original program. >>>Also due to the rating boost, bitboards and file size Rybka does not look like a >>>Fruit-clone. >>> >>>Of course he, as well as other commercial and amatuer authors had a look into >>>fruit sources. Copying ideas is not cloning. >>> >>>Gerd >> >>Hello Gerd, >> >>i think you know that i had nothing to do with the greif sources or program. I >>was tester and book author and since this days i have no contact to Michael. >> > >You told that story... > >>Again, i don't say Rybka is a clone. > >But you claim suspicions in a public forum for no reason as a concurrent >programmer. Vas is ready to make a commercial business with Rybka. >Can you imagine how much damage your post may wreak, to Vas's future business? > >Gerd I do not think that his post is going to cause demage to Vas's future. some similiarity to fruit is natural and I think that there is some similiarity between every 2 good chess programs. I also use mobility evaluation in Movei and today it is based only on the number of legal moves. What Daniel suggested means that changing it to have different weight for every piece in case that I decide in the future to do Movei commercial is not allowed because this idea is taken from fruit. Uri Uri
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