Your argument can be summarized as that we should ignore what copyright law says because the consequence of the law is bad in this particular case for certain c

Your argument can be summarized as that we should ignore what copyright law says because the consequence of the law is bad in this particular case for certain chess companies. That's neither a sane or reasonable way to make legal judgments. Can you show a sound legal argument why the judge's ruling was wrong? FYI, there used to be a 'hot news' doctrine that might have protected the chess moves (and the FIDE made this their argument), but it's been largely superseded or overturned [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._Associated_Press#.22Hot_news.22_cases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._...