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and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music music] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Conservatory Boston Conservatory] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music Berklee College of Music] <ref>personal communication, 2016</ref>. Concerning computer chess, he is proponent of not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel reinventing the wheel], and has cooperated with the [[Ippolit]] and [[RobboLito]] comrades <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comrade Comrade from Wikipedia]</ref> and Decembrists <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt Decembrist revolt from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[http://users.telenet.be/chesslogik//robbolito.htm ChessLogik - RobboLito] hosted by [[Norman Schmidt]] has a list of [[RobboLito]] comrades and Decembrists</ref>, and led the effort to [[Debugging|debug]], stabilize, and improve Ippolit source code releases, translated RobboLito from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanians_in_Italy#Italy Italo-Albanian] dialect to English, and put RobboLito versions and his own derivate [[Fire]] under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GNU GPL]]. Beside [[IvanHoe]], he hosts his own [[Fruit]] and [[Toga]] derivative [[Cyclone]] <ref>[http://www.chesslogik.com/index.htm www.chesslogik.com]</ref>, and works worked with [[Dmitri Gusev]] and [[Matthew R. Brades]] on [[Firenzina]] <ref>[https://github.com/Censor/Firenzina Censor/Firenzina · GitHub]</ref>.

In 2008, Norman Schmidt tried to distribute his ''Fruit and Toga'' derivative [[xyclOps]] commercially <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22151 xyclOps 1.2 is available] by Norman Schmidt, [[CCC]], July 05, 2008</ref> until it was suspected as [[Clones:Category:Clone|clone]] by [[Matthias Gemuh]] and others <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22276 xyclOps, a clone ?] by [[Matthias Gemuh]], [[CCC]], July 10, 2008</ref>. After Norman Schmidt freely volunteered to refund his customers <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=200082&t=22276 Re: xyclOps, a clone ?] by [[Norman Schmidt]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2008</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22306 open apology to the chess engine community] by [[Norman Schmidt]], [[CCC]], July 12, 2008</ref>, he announced ''[[Cyclone ]] based on Fruit and Toga'' as [[:Category:Open Source|open source engine]] under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL v3.0]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22619 Cylone 1.0 beta now available] by [[Norman Schmidt]], [[CCC]], July 27, 2008</ref> <ref>IMPORTANT: Cyclone is a fork of [[Toga#1.4beta5c|Toga II 1.4b5]] which has been relicensed under the GPL 3. Code from Cyclone cannot be reused in Fruit/Toga which is GPL 2+., [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012012343/http://hardy.uhasselt.be/Toga/posix_versions/ Posix ports of some recent version of Toga II] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]] ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine Wayback Machine])</ref>.

Norman Schmidt operated and maintained the '''ChessLogik.com'''' site since 2007, to distribute his projects and other open-source chess engines to hobbyists. Claiming fair-mindedness and many programs and the chess community have taken benefit from his contributions and improvements, he substantiates the suspicion <ref>[http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1647 Computer Chess Biggest Liar] by [[Franklin Titus|kingliveson]], [[Computer Chess Forums|OpenChess Forum]], October 09, 2011</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40728 Houdini with 1:1 Robbolito-code?] by [[Dr. Alexander Schmidt]], [[CCC]], October 12, 2011</ref> that [[Houdini|Houdini 1.0]] by [[Robert Houdart]] is based on his and [[Milos Stanisavljevic|Sentinel's]] GNU public licensed RobboLito 0.085g3 <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=428534&t=40728 Re: Houdini with 1:1 Robbolito-code?] by [[Norman Schmidt]], [[CCC]], October 12, 2011</ref>. Due to that accusation of misuse, and the [[Johandry Gonzalez Espin|Espin]] case with the [[SquarknII]] [[Clones:Category:Clone|clone]] their Robbolito versions 0.085 and 0.09 are no longer available for download from the ChessLogik sites <ref>[http://users.telenet.be/chesslogik//robbolito.htm ChessLogik - RobboLito]</ref> <ref>[http://users.telenet.be/chesslogik//fire.htm ChessLogik - Fire]</ref>.