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Subject: Re: Moderation - About Hacking threads

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 09:05:36 08/26/99

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On August 26, 1999 at 10:52:21, Andrew Dados wrote:

>   One analogy comes to mind here: Why noone cried 'FAULT, Hackers, illegal'
>when chessbase wrote adapter for all winboard-compatible engines? Do you think
>all engine authors liked that their program can be run within CB interface? Did
>ChessBase have to 'hack' or alter in any way those executables? Or ask all
>engine authors for permission? No... they just copied protocol.... What it so
>hard to understand here?
>
> Cheers
>-Andrew-
>
>P.S. This post is not against ChessBase...

I see you mix up 2 things: CB only made an adapter so that you can run Winboard
ENGINES. They don't extract any kind of engine from a program.
It would be different if they'd write an "adapter" to run e.g. the Rebel ENGINE
within CB or Fritz.



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