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Subject: Re: La Petite 1.0 (download)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:41:29 10/22/99

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On October 22, 1999 at 20:28:15, Pete Galati wrote:

>On October 22, 1999 at 18:48:58, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 1999 at 07:10:55, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>you can download a new WinBoard Engine from my webpage.
>>>
>>>La Petite (program from Dr. Gabriele Müller, switzerland) is the "Little" sister
>>>from La Grande. La Grande is the successor from the very experimental privat
>>>chess program Voyager. La Petite play much aggresive and spekulative as La
>>>Grande. The program is complete rewritten and is the work from many years.
>>>
>>>More information on my webpage.
>>>
>>>Have fun with this new chess engine and thanks to Dr. Gabriele Müller.
>>>
>>>Kind regards
>>>Frank
>>>
>>>PS_1
>>>This La Petite "WinBoard Engine" standing exclusive on my webpage !
>>>
>>>PS_2
>>>Copy from the "WinBoard Forum"
>>
>>You didn't mention your URL, so I've taken the liberty
>>to provide one:
>>
>>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/
>>
>>--
>>James
>
>It's at http://www.in-trier.de/~quisinsky/schach/download.htm  LaPetite appears
>to play a very risky game, worth a try.
>
>Pete


Let me give you a quick idea:  download this program.  Under unix, do a quick
"strings lapetite.exe" and then download the latest "crafty" and give that a
quick check.

I'm not the least bit amused by this.  "many years of work" as it says in
the web site is true...  but it appears to be mostly _my_ work.  :(

This thing still uses crafty commands like reset, timeleft, etc.  It does the
same sort of text processing.  I don't know of many programs that handle
castling with "0-0", "o-o", "O-O", and "O-O+" ad so forth.  And uses my
"savepos *" internal command to set the initial position to a non-standard
position, etc.

This guy is a scam artist.  This program is "crafty".  Just like his previous
program (voyager).

what a loser to keep trying this.  You'd think he would at least get a clue
about how to hide his copying a little bit better.

Please pass the word along that _if_ this program does go commercial, he can
expect contact from my attorney.



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