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Subject: Re: ChessBits is threatened by Computerschach and speile

Author: Bango

Date: 17:56:51 01/04/00

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On January 04, 2000 at 19:28:54, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On January 04, 2000 at 18:45:05, Bango wrote:
>
>>On January 04, 2000 at 09:17:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>There are two issues:
>>
>>< .....deletion >
>>
>>>(2) the real question is "Who holds the copyright?"  The answer should be
>>>"Nunn" unless he signed over the copyright to CSS.
>>
>>It would seem strange if Nunn claims copyright when he clearly trampled all >>over Bobby Fischer's 60 Memorable Games.  Not only copyright infringement but >>blatant plagiarism.
>>
>>Nunn cannot have it both ways !!
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Bango123
>
>Substantiate this please.
>
>bruce

Hello Bruce,

You may be aware as most chess friends are; that Bobby Fischer wrote a book
called "My Sixty ( 60 ) Memorable Games" in old annotation.  Dr. Nunn rewrote
the book utilizing new annotation and added some extra analysis, at least some
claim the analysis is not meaningful.  Bobby Fischer became aware of this new
book and filed a lawsuit ( probably copyright infringement ) and now you cannot
purchase Dr. Nunn's edition anywhere, for at least the moment.

In other words, Dr. Hyatt is stating Dr. Nunn "may" have copyright priviledges
over his test suites, however; as noted above, if he can blatantly copy "My
Sixty Memorable Games" why cannot others use his test suites ??

In fact, ARE certain positions on the board copyrightable ??

The positions he has chosen are already "well known" opening positions, so how
can he defend his patent of the square handled coffee cup, when it was there all
along ??

BTW I liked you Mick Jagger comparison, it was funny ! -:)

Now....about that release date of Cinderella Ferret....I see a new chess engine
for Fritz 6 in it's future....

Best regards,

Bango123



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