Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Bionic Impakt

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:36:45 09/14/99

Go up one level in this thread


On September 14, 1999 at 21:33:23, syed wrote:

>I just happened to read at the WinBoard forum that Bionic will not be
>participating at this year's Dutch Open since the author of DIEP complained
>about clones. Which set me of thinking.....at least the authors of Bionic were
>honest enough to declare that they had cloned Crafty to an extent. What if some
>other programmers didn't? Would it be possible for the tournament directors to
>find out? Is it possible to develop a clone detector application to determine if
>a program is a clone of Crafty? ....

>since Crafty is the only quality engine
>with source code for download.
Actually, there are some others that are not far behind.  Phalanx is a very,
very strong engine with a very simple code base.  The Crazy Bishop also is quite
strong.  There are some others in this same category.  The source is available
for these also.

It seems rather bad form to steal someone else's stuff and stamp your name on
it.  Hopefully, they will catch a cheater or two and hold the dirty laundry up
on a worldwide scale.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.