Author: stuart taylor
Date: 04:22:33 03/12/00
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On March 12, 2000 at 06:54:25, Pete Galati wrote: >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 I suppose I have to get my computer seen to. The person who sold it to me (a k6-3 with a "3-year gurantee") thinks that it's not good to download any free programs from anywhere. So I can't really complain much to him. So you agree that the top commercial programs are a little above freeware?! (even though you may wish that their monopoly was broken-which you may feel they deserve). And I continue to ask my original question for any other answers. I mean, is it basically unanimously agreed that fritz 6a is greatest at blitz and semi-blitz, and junior top top in longer time controls, and that all the other top programs have something unique about them too, but the above two are simply the very top? And it may not be much before November that we can expect improvements on that? S.T.
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