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Subject: Re: Amateur programs vs Commercial ones

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 16:07:50 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?
>
>LG2000 tried to go commerical but failed I think..Hence the use of "light" ..

Little Goliath has little to do with Micheal's upcoming Goliath engine which he
will be selling.  Different search algorithims etc.  As to LG going commercial,
I think he was trying to get it released with another engine, and that there was
little or no interest in that.  But of course that may be just plain wrong.



>
>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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