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Subject: Re: What constitutes a clone?

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 00:05:12 02/16/05

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On February 15, 2005 at 18:38:43, John Merlino wrote:

>I'm not trying to start a brutally long thread here, but I'm just curious about
>how people feel about a particularly touchy subject -- clones. What, in your
>mind, would lead you to the conclusion that an engine is a clone?
>...

a clone will be born by the way an engine will be created.

Starting from a foreign source code or patchworking it from different originals
is poisoning the process which by that becomes cloning.

I warmly recommend not to have whole sources of other chess programs at hand.

Every part of a chess program should be tryed by oneself first up to working
results before consulting a second opinion of other programmers. It is very
dangerous to communicate on chess programming themes by exchanging even parts
of source code. There is no need for that. And if someone really is convinced
that this could not be avoided, there is no need at all to spread it openly
over the whold internet.

Regargs, Reinhard.



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