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Subject: Re: Re Have You noticed funny thing in London WMCCC results?related question

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 01:32:47 09/05/00

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On September 05, 2000 at 03:09:28, stuart taylor wrote:

>On September 05, 2000 at 03:00:39, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On September 05, 2000 at 02:28:09, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>After 9 rounds, we had commercial programs at place 1-7 and free/amateur engines
>>>at place 8-14! So may be only real conclusion after London is, that amateurs are
>>>amateurs and pros are pros...
>>
>>I noticed it when playing. There are very big differences, specially in the
>>finetuning of the eval and the openingbook.
>>
>>These take so much time, that it's almost impossible for an amateur to keep up.
>>
>>You can even see the splitup among the amateurs, amateurs working solo and the
>>ones working with more people ( or at least having a professionel book, tester).
>>
>>Tony
>>
>>>
>>>Jouni
>A related question, Are there amateur programs which are more profound and
>intrinsically qualitative (besides the fact they they lose, for reasons of
>certain types of imperfections)than any of the proffesional comercial programs?

Maybe, if I could understand the question. Could you please rewrite it for
non-native english speakers ?

Tony

>S.Taylor



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