Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 02:59:40 10/24/99
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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. I haven't tried the 'strings lapetite.exe', but I believe you that there are lots of strings that were just translated. I agree that is strong evidence that lapetite's I/O is based on Crafty. But is there any evidence that the engine is still a crafty clone? Copying an engine is, from my point of view, much worse than reusing the I/O stuff and structure of the userinterface. > >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. Yes, if there would ever be a commercial version of this program she'd better have a look at craftys lizense. Frank
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