Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 10:21:41 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? I think it is mostly happening at short timecontrols and at home. Look at important tournaments (WMCCC, IPCCC in Paderborn, ...). You will see that the commercial programs do much better than the amateurs. > >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. No easily maybe, but they could be. Most commercial programs started as amateurs. Frank
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