Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:27:46 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 13:21:41, Frank Schneider 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? >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. I think that holds for some programs but not others. Crafty (for instance) does very well at long time controls also. Consider the recent CCC tournament, where Crafty completely had its way over the other programs. The KKUP tournaments were at very long time controls, and Crafty did very well against commercial entrants. And in Ed Schroder's Chess in 2010 tournament, Crafty was leading the field. >>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. That is true. I think that the ameteur programs are getting much more sophisticated over time, and a lot of very smart people are getting involved. Further, many of the very good programmers are willing to teach. That can only advance the science.
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