Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 05:32:31 08/22/05
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On August 21, 2005 at 04:51:16, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On August 21, 2005 at 02:48:31, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>The silence in CCC is deafening... >> >>This is an historic WCCC, the first time a non commercial winning the WCCC since >>1992, it seems their domination period is over. Not to speak about the micro >>WCCC which has been dominated from the very beginning by the commercials. >> >>Congratulations Anthony, you did the impossible and so convincing. >> >>Ed > >It seems sub-optimal to pretend the end of domination by commercial programs if >that is expressed by one oldie of the big business people in computerchess, who >has left the scene years ago. Of course - if the best left the building, the >amateurs have enough place to develop their products. But to pretend that they >(the amateurs) are now better than the best commercially driven is to say the >least a fairy tale. It's the other way round. The business godfathers have >retired because there is no big future in this business, simply because the >existing programs are strong enough for 99,999% of the Earth Population. > >So, what we see in ZAPPA or FRUIT is just a symptom of the actual economic >crisis of computerchess. These new programs are nothing better than programs >like REBEL or FRITZ who were stopped now. This is not the first time an amateur program has won. The chess engines themselves are only a fraction of the entire chess system that you purchase. Fruit is open source, and so the commercial programs can all take a look and see what Fruit is doing. So, I think that the commercial systems have nothing to fear.
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