Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:26:08 12/21/01
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On December 21, 2001 at 10:10:42, Peter Berger wrote:
>On December 20, 2001 at 21:21:41, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>You _really_ narrow down the field for the commercials a lot here.
>>>
>>>You pick a professional : Chess Tiger.
>>>
>>>Lemme pick an amateur : Yace.
>>>
>>>OK - you win .
>>>
>>>How many commercial programs can be really sure to win this kind of "betting
>>>battle" ?
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>pete
>>
>>
>>
>>That's not my point. We were talking about best commercial programs vs. best
>>amateur programs.
>>
>>I agree that there are strong amateurs, but the interesting thing is the gap
>>between the best professionals and the best amateurs.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Oh , but I think we actually _were_ talking about the same thing here.
>
>By your definition I think we only have four professional programs left:
>
>Fritz, Junior, Shredder and Tiger.
>
>When we are talking strongest availlable amateurs we are probably talking Yace
>currently. The four above should have some chance to be 50-100 points ahead -
>but I know of no other.
>
>I think if you narrow the definition for the professionals even further as you
>did in another post ( commercial success) we are left with three commercial
>programs only.
>
>pete
You need to add several others to the list of commercial program.
You have to add Rebel and Gandalf (soon).
With this, you have the 17 first places in the SSDF taken by commercial
programmers!
Christophe
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