Author: Pete Galati
Date: 00:04:50 10/23/99
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On October 23, 1999 at 02:33:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... :( Yes, this does appear to be Crafty. Whatever large or small modifications may have been made to the code, it does have Crafty's finger prints. Pete
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