Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:19:31 12/21/01
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On December 21, 2001 at 03:25:37, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>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
Do you consider spending 10-12 hours a day developping Tiger for 4 years before
reaching an acceptable level for commercialization as "spending your free time
developping your program"?
Christophe
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