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Subject: Re: Commercial program strength vs. amateur program strength

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 00:25:37 12/21/01

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On December 21, 2001 at 01:12:31, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On December 21, 2001 at 00:42:22, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>[snip]
>>If you spend your free time writing the program, then you don't need to be
>>supported by the money that you make from it.
>
>It becomes harder and harder for this method of writing a chess program to
>attain to world championship level.
>
>Ferret is the only amateur engine that has come close in the last few years.

Who was talking about world championship level, and what do you consider "the
last few years"? Junior, Shredder, and Tiger have become commercial fairly
recently in my mind.
-Tom



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