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Subject: Re: Amateur programs vs Commercial ones

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 10:00:33 03/28/00

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On March 28, 2000 at 11:47:05, Pete Galati wrote:

>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.
>
Was COmet once commerical?

LG2000 tried to go commerical but failed I think..Hence the use of "light" ..

Not sure about Anmon, but Crafty was based on a mainframe computer which used to
have tons of money thrown at it??



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