Author: Pete Galati
Date: 04:39:53 03/12/00
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On March 12, 2000 at 07:22:33, stuart taylor wrote: >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. This does not make any sense to me, I don't know what's preventing you from downloading programs. > 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). I don't see monopolys really, most of us have rather hardcore preferences. > 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. Seems reasonable. Pete
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