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Subject: Re: Why dont engines support the egtb format that Chessmaster uses?

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 13:46:53 04/02/04

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>Even if there were a hundred free Winboard engines stronger than The King,
>people would still buy Chessmaster because of the incredible value of the entire
>software package.
>
>Additionally, people typically don't find out about the existence of free
>engines without first delving into computer chess via a commercial package. I
>don't know how many people download Crafty each year, but I would suspect that
>each one of them has bought a commercial program first.
>
>jm

That's actually a bit creepy, i started getting intrested in comp chess when i
first got Chessmater 5500 and the next step for me was the to run Crafty under
Winboard. I got hooked on comp chess through CM5500 and then discovered that
there was a lot of free engines out there :)

Jonas



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