Author: blass uri
Date: 23:27:34 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 21:06:25, Christophe Theron 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. > > >The difference between amateur and commercial programs is the thousands of hours >spend in fixing every little hole in the program. > >You can, it's true, find some amateur programs that will occasionally beat a >commercial program on one game. > >But if you organize a match between these 2 programs, the picture is really >different. It is not the case at least for crafty. Crafty17.07 did 39 out of 80 in Chessfun vacation tournament(1 hour per side) and Hiarcs7.32 did also 39 out of 80 so I do not see a big difference between the commercial Hiarcs7.32 and crafty17.07 Uri
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