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Subject: Re: Amateur programs vs Commercial ones

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 02:22:04 03/31/00

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On March 31, 2000 at 00:21:35, James Robertson wrote:
[snip]
>Ok, maybe I read your original post wrong. My program is obviously amateur, I've
>put hundreds of hours of work into it, and it (I hope) plays a decent game
>against even the best commercial engines. I was quite disturbed to read what I
>misinterpreted as a downplaying of amateur engines efforts. :)

I think it's plain that Christophe was just saying that a full time programmer
can spend more time debugging, improving, etc.  The sweat in all the details
will give those programs an edge.

I don't know the time frame for sure, but I suspect at this time last year,
Chess Tiger was still an amateur program.




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