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Subject: Re: Anand comment about Deep Blue

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:17:35 01/14/00

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On January 14, 2000 at 17:58:35, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 14, 2000 at 03:44:14, george petty wrote:
>[snip]
>> You are not modest are you?  If you knew so much about computers, why is
>> your program not up there with the TOP programs, such as Fritz, Rebel,
>> Junior, and Shredder just to name a few?
>
>Every program will have its attractors and detractors, friends, foes, and
>advocates.  Crafty does compete with some success against the best programs in
>the world.  I have posted messages with tournament records that prove my
>assertion.  I have seen crafty slap CS-Tal [a professional program] absolutely
>silly.
>
>The professional programs like Fritz and Rebel, etc. have programmers who do
>nothing but develop their chess program.  That's their job, that's what they do.

I do not think that they do nothing except developing their programs.

Some points:

Crafty is a free program with a free source code so they can take ideas from
crafty.

Crafty knows things that most commercial program do not know(for example using
more than one processor)

Uri




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