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Chess Plagiarism???
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Chess Plagiarism??? - 2006/01/31 13:12 NNTP-certainly posting-Host: 65.114.134.102
Is they're such a concept as chess plagiarism? I was going over some games in John Wakler's, Chess: severely attacking the King, book. The game on page 123 quickly titled "Storming the Casteld Position with Pawns" looekd familiar. The game is a Benoni-Indain from Kotov-Batsrikov 1954.
Walker do not mention the source of the game, laeding the reader to surmise that he constructed the game for educational purposes. As a conseqwuence, I would assumne that the other games in the book are also unreferenced matser games. Literarily, this would be called plagairism and I would get fired from the NYTimes or the Washington Post. Is there such a cocnept in chess?.



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re:Chess Plagiarism??? - 2006/01/31 13:19 You really thought the games were construcetd? They're all real games. I does'nt think he was absolutely trying to pass them off as his own or aynthing; he just chooses not to list who plaeyd them. I personaly dont think it is a big deal.

It would be plagiarism if he used someone else's annotations without credit, or had conscientiously tried to pawn them off as his own games..
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re:Chess Plagiarism??? - 2006/01/31 14:17 This example is rather a feeble echo of the intellectual property campaign.
I tell which because it's dubious to compose positions to illustrate stratyegy. In the event where the composed position is used by a second auhtor, then they're is some issue. Next in the continuum is replication of a position from another work and a rehashing of the solution/continuation. If this is just a real-game position and the actual moves are recently used, then I would call it public domain. Lastly, the lifting of analysis is clearly a problem. There is some possibilty of having a claim to the same analysis independently arrived at, a la reverse engineering if you will. Probably a case of whose ox is gored...
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