Author: Pete Galati
Date: 08:47:05 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 11:28:27, Peter Skinner wrote: >I have noticed that quite a few amateur programs other than Crafty have been >kicking the hell out of commercial programs such as Shredder 4, Chess Genius >6.5, and Fritz 5.32, and Junior 6. > >Why is this happening? > >Crafty has always done this, but now Comet, AnMon, LG2000v2000 2.5, and others, >are equally taking them to task. > >This is not really surprising though as most of these programs could easily be >commercial. The difference in strength isn't that great. Keep in mind that Crafty also looses allot of games to those commercial programs, but you won't hear about those as often because it lacks impact as a story; "Shredder crushes Crafty", well, yeah, so what's the story here? Not worth telling about. If one of the major Chess software companies worked together with any one of those programmers, they could be released as part of an interface/engine combo, we're all lucky that that didn't fit into those programer's life styles or plans for one reason or another. I'm not too concerned, we have enough comercial Chess software as it is, same for freeware. But there's always room for more. Pete
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