Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 20:13:21 03/03/00
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On March 03, 2000 at 17:03:32, Drazen Marovic wrote: >what is the definition of a "Professional chess program" authors appreciated? There's some people who would like to call a program professional if a person earns some income from it, but I don't think that the latter necessarily implies the former. There are people who program their commercial software in their free time, after their 8-hour grind doing something else, and there are people who don't sell their software who work at least half-time on it. For instance, Bruce Moreland refused to accept some (unofficial) prize for the best amateur result at the last WCCC because he felt it should go to a real "amateur", saying that he spends a significant amount of time on his program. How you distinguish between programs depends, to a rather large extent, on the purpose you want to segregate them for. But then, that kind of begs the question, doesn't it? :-) Dave
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