Re: Plagiary, CGF view

[cesczx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chen Zhixing)]

>
>This plagerism was also not fair to the other competitors.  It's as
>if Prof Chen had been allowed to enter Handtalk 3 times, and took
>the top 3 places.  The second best program comes in 4th instead.
>
                --David Fotland

   I am afraid that no one will be glad to participate tournaments if the
problem of plagiarism is not solved.  There will be the 3rd, the forth,...
plagiary-Handtalk to enter the tournaments, thus the tournaments will become
a competition mainly between plariary-Handtalks.
   The plagiarism also injured the profit of the go programmers very much.
David Fotland is one of the greatest victim.  His Many Faces was sold as
AI-Igo 6 in Japan by a company named ASCII.  After the 3rd FOST Cup in which
Many Faces lost to Hit (a plagiary from Handtalk), ASCII rejected Many Faces
and began to sell Hit as AI-Igo 7.  Since then David Fotland lost all income
from selling Many Faces in Japan.
   Now the plagiary-Handtalk is filling the market.  There are many names:
Medusa(Hit or Hamlet) in Korea, Silver Igo, Family Igo(a variety of Silver
Igo) and AI-Igo 7 (Hit) in Japan, and a new version of Silver Igo named
Ginsei Igo is to be sold in Japan.  The advertisement claims that the price
of Family Igo is only 3,300 yen, and its strength reaches those go-software
with price of 12,800 yen!!! How can it be tolerated?!

Chen Zhixing