Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 11:04:00 12/21/01
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On December 21, 2001 at 12:26:08, Christophe Theron wrote: >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! > Commercial succuess? Hmm Battlechess sold quite a few copies in the past. And then there is Chessmaster :) > > Christophe
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