Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 23:33:25 10/22/99
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On October 23, 1999 at 02:06:26, Will Singleton wrote: >On October 23, 1999 at 00:41:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. > >I think it's supposed to be a lady (Gabriele). bsf... I'm sure you're right. >However, you say that if the author were a bit less of a loser, he could hide >his deception easily. If so, then it's likely others have done the same, >undetected. By publishing the source, you encourage this sort of thing. No way >around it. > >Will I don't encourage it, any more than the xfree86.org guys encourage people to steal the latest Xfree86 source, rename it, and claim it is something new. We had a guy at a very old ACM event that showed up with a 'stolen' commercial executable that he had edited a bit (with a debugger) to change the output, but the program was the same. If it is available, "they" will come, it seems... :(
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