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Subject: Re: What about Bionic? [was: Nimzo2000 results in recent tournament...why?]

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 03:23:44 05/04/99

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On May 03, 1999 at 23:45:25, Roger D Davis wrote:

>As I understand it, Bionic and Voyager are both Crafty clones...
>I imagine Bob knows his program better than anyone else, and can improve
>it faster than anyone one else.

Sure but Bionic was stronger than Crafty 16.2 and I can't believe Crafty made
such a big jump in versions between 16.2 and 16.6, even keeping the same version
of Bionic.

Look at the resultsL crafty scores almost twice as much! There must be something
buggy.

>As for WBNimzo...I see no reason whatsoever to throw good money at this
>thing, assuming this is the retail version. Anyone know? Perhaps it's been
>deliberately dumbed down (my speculation, not fact) to prevent people
>from attach it to email and sending it all over the world.

as far as I understand one receives both version (stand-alone and wb) for the
same 55$.

ciao
Franz



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