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Subject: Re: ChessBits is threatened by Computerschach and speile

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 08:51:16 01/04/00

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On January 04, 2000 at 09:22:36, Frederic Friedel wrote:

>On January 04, 2000 at 08:43:35, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I wonder, if these 10 simple endgame positions really are copyrighted by Nunn or
>>CSS? Is it possible?? Then same copyright must cover also Nunn opening
>>positions. Nonsense!!
>
>ChessBits reprinted verbatim half of an article (introduction, chess commentary
>and all) by Dr Nunn without his permission or the permission of the Vögel-Verlag
>(publishers of CSS). The second half was announced for the subsequent issue.
>
>The Vögel-Verlag, publishers of CSS, have paid Dr. Nunn for the unauthorised
>reproduction of his article in ChessBits, since they are responsible for
>protecting his rights. They seek reimbursement from ChessBits. The editors of
>CSS have spent many hours over the past months in an effort to avert legal
>proceedings, which would cost many thousands of marks, vs. a few hundred for the
>author of the article. We will continue our efforts.

High crimes and misdemeanors, Frederic. Do you really want to turn this into a
Nunn-gate affair? Will this promote ChessBase? Create sympathy with possible
clients?

I wanted to congratulate Frans Morsch hereby with the promising results of the
latest Fritz 6.X versions, reported here and furthermore would like to say that
I appreciate people of ChessBase posting here and answering our questions.

Eelco



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