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Subject: Re: Start Your Engines.. TestPostion

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 12:38:22 05/28/03

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On May 27, 2003 at 18:22:59, Christophe Theron wrote:

>
>To answer your question, yes there will be a free version of Chess Tiger for
>Linux soon. Without GUI, so maybe it will be XBoard compatible.
>
>    Christophe

I suppose I should have my head examined for asking this, but why
make it free?  I'd be willing to pay good money for it and I'm
guessing a decent number of others would as well.  Even if it were
an Xboard engine only, it would still IMHO be worth buying.

I'm not disparaging your generousity, but it seems to me that
without monetary rewards there is no incentive for commercial
programmers to bring their engines to Linux.  I also run Win4Lin,
but I find native programs easier to use and thus would
rather have the engines targeted as actual Linux programs.

Anyway, just my 2-cents.

regards,
--tom




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