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Subject: Re: Amateur programs vs Commercial ones

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 11:05:34 03/28/00

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On March 28, 2000 at 13:00:33, Aaron Tay wrote:

>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?

That's very unlikly.

>
>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??

As I understand it, it's a completly diferrent program than the Cray program.
Momey spent isn't so much an issue.  The Cray program wasn't a commercial
program.

Pete



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