Author: Pete Galati
Date: 16:45:15 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 19:07:50, Jason Williamson wrote: >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. > Considering it's brutal strength, it could have worked out, who knows if it was marketable. Pete > > >> >>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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