Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:17:42 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 22:36:45, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. It doesn't seem to help. IE remember 'voyager'? After it was exposed, nothing changed, it is still around, no comment by the "author" or anything. Seems that some think 'anything goes' in computer chess?
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