Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 08:04:50 04/28/00
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On April 28, 2000 at 00:01:05, Jerry Adams wrote: > > > Like everyonelse I own crafty but I never play it, Personally I prefer the >commericial programs much, much better. Not to take anything away from Dr. Bob >or Crafty, I enjoy watching Crafty play on Icc against Grandmasters, one of my >favorites there is Singacrafty which I think is one of the few Programs on Icc >with a "Real Rating", since it will play anyone, it doesn't careful pick it's >opponents to gain rating points. But let's be reasonable Folks crafty is simply >not in the same class as fritz, junior and chess tiger. Jerry, Play all the programs. Remember the old saying that "variety is the spice of life". I personally like MChessPro 8 even though it gets slaughtered in comp-comp games. Your contention that Crafty is inferior may be true but then as long as you keep buying or otherwise acquiring legally the big gun programs you will make the commercial programmers and their publishers happy. Hyatt is doing Crafty as an intellectual exercise but he likes praise just like all of us do. By saying that Fritz, Junior and Chess Tiger are superior you are merely saying to us that the purchase price is justified by the playing strength. The paltry prices of these programs is amazing. The amount of time and effort to write these programs can be had for next to nothing. Keep on enjoying computer chess including Crafty, Tim "The Peacemaker" Frohlick
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