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Subject: Re: Any news about new programs?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 03:54:25 03/12/00

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On March 12, 2000 at 00:03:22, stuart taylor wrote:

>On March 11, 2000 at 20:43:05, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On March 11, 2000 at 20:24:17, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Has anyone any intelligence information about any serious new programs or
>>>upgrades due within next 2-3 months (of types that are likely to top rating
>>>lists)? Or is it correct to assume that we must wait till November as usual?
>>>S.T.
>>
>>Serious?  I'm not sure what you mean by that, most are serious.
>>
>>Frank Quisinsky announces newly release Winboard engines all the time, some are
>>very very strong.
>>
>>Try searching through his News Ticker and the easy to access archived tickers
>>http://www.in-trier.de/~quisinsky/news.htm
>
>Is it indeed possible that any of these freeware programs have more knowledge
>than a program like junior 6a?

Probably not.

> Would any of them come top on ssdf rating list if they would participate?
>If so, I can't understand why they don't.

I never pay attention to ssdf, I don't take it very seriouslly.

> At any rate, I havn't succeded in downloading any program from the internet
>although I try from time to time. There always seems to be an error somewhere
>which prevents access or something. But thanks for the link!
>S.T.

Downloading programs is very seldom a problem for me, I have no idea why you
would have trouble.

Pete



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