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.....the verdict is always "not guilty" as opposed to "innocent"............ I always thought that a court either convicted someone or cleared them of guilt. Not under U.S. Law. As Dr. Hyatt has said, beyond a reasonable doubt is the standard of proof required for a conviction in a criminal (as opp...

BTW, i checked about fabien, He lives in Lille (so that's correct) (Rijsel for the dutch people) and he's in the Lille Go club. He is the tresholder there. I only lives 50km from Lille so i could check for all those who think it's a fake one.... Best Johan Well Johan that would be nice but... For a...

Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: I never had the impression there were much people in computer chess concerned about morals. The interesting thing is if it is legal or not. (This, not much people care about either )

Hi Gian,

There are still a few of us around that do care about both.

Somebody has posted a back up copy of that thread if you want to go take another look: http://rybka.atspace.us/clon.htm http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforum/topic_show.pl?tid=6772 Thanks! Back up copy? Are you suggesting that the 2008 thread cannot be found by search anymore? for those wonderin...

Now, if Strelka is Fruit 2.1 derivative, as Fabien implies, then... You see, if I were a chess programmer and I had 3 years to compare Strelka with Fruit 2.1 then I would not have had to wait for Fabien to reach the same conclusion as Fabien implies. Are there no chess programmers here? Sir, did yo...

one of us has a misunderstanding of what the word 'professional' means, then, & checking up on it as far as i can tell it isn't me: The real answer is John, it is neither of you... It is a dumb statement to the "n th degree" and it is even more stupid to think anyone would accept that explanation.

Zach Wegner wrote:Erdo is still booking for us, so the book should be quite up to date.

Interesting this "us"....

Us as in Rondo Team...

Us as in Deep Sjeng and Rondo?

"Oh what a tangled web we weave..."

Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:I'm a professional programmer, and so are probably all participants in the WCCC, including the amateurs. But I'm not a professional games programmer.

Ahahahahahahaha

Ahahahahahahaha

By far the best joke I have heard recently

I stand by my actions in this matter and have absolutely no problem with the issue being public - which is why I brought it up, anyway. "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." And "oh horsehockey" you had no clue anyone would challenge your warped stance on this issue. If you...

Rob, regardless of what the rules say, the ICGA has allowed exemptions for programmers that are selling their programs under the name they play with, but which are not professional games programmers (which the ICGA rules you just quoted do refer to). Knowing this... this why didn't you ask for one....