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Subject: Re: Amateur programs vs Commercial ones

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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