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Subject: Re: Lets all buy Weak Engines

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:17:47 04/02/04

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On April 02, 2004 at 15:04:15, martin fierz wrote:

>On April 02, 2004 at 12:36:58, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On April 02, 2004 at 12:09:29, Eduard Nemeth wrote:
>>
>>>On April 02, 2004 at 11:46:56, Christian Koch wrote:
>>>
>>>>see http://rahman85.tripod.com/rahman.html
>>>
>>>All engines goes commercial !
>>>
>>>I hold me then only the best 5 (MAX)!
>>>Is this the way?
>>>
>>>Eduard
>>
>>All the engines can go commercial, but most people will only buy the top 5 rated
>>by the SSDF and other Rating agencies.
>>
>>Jorge
>
>"let's all buy weak engines" - ahem, do you mean to imply that ktulu is weak??
>ktulu is a very good free engine, and if version 5 gets something like 50-100
>points better it is certainly a reasonable move to make it commercial...
>
>cheers
>  martin

Crafty level engines are considered as weak relative to the commercial and even
going 100 elo higher is not enough.

I guess that ktulu needs to get at least 150 elo better to be in the same league
as Junior or Fritz that mean competing for the second place after shredder.

Uri



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