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Subject: Re: Chess System Tal II for Windows.

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 09:58:36 04/08/99

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On April 08, 1999 at 11:40:28, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On April 08, 1999 at 06:42:03, Didzis Cirulis wrote:
>
>>* Maybe someone could post the games of this program, at least some 10?
>>
>>* Maybe there is a computer account for this program on FICS or ICS?
>>
>>Didzis Cirulis
>
>I have seen somewhere (here I guess) that people are not allowed to publish
>games or even results of comp-comp games against CSTal.
>
>
>    Christophe

They were even more careful.  They say "game sequences", so you can't just pick
an arbitrary position, and play 10 moves showing how well/poorly it plays from
that position.

I wonder how many consecutive positions constitutes a "game sequence"?  Two?
One? :-) .... :-(

Frankly, I think the restriction is overly severe, but software developers can
choose their license terms.  People tend not to purchase products with licenses
that they don't like. <shrug>  Oxford is not the first company to refuse to
allow computer-computer result reporting, and at least Chris has takes some time
to justify it on his web site, so we know that this is a conscious decision,
instead of some utter stupidity (for the latter, refer to the license for
Borland Pascal 7.0).

Dave Gomboc



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