Author: Pete Galati
Date: 19:13:08 09/10/00
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On September 10, 2000 at 21:52:20, Peter Skinner wrote: >On September 10, 2000 at 18:56:01, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On September 10, 2000 at 18:45:07, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>Gandalf is not smp. And yes I expected Gandalf to do better as well. >> >>At least Christian has the integrity not to hide the results or invent a lot of >>excuses on Gandalf's behalf. Not exactly the picture we see when Crafty is being >>severely beaten by a commercial program. >> >>And yes, I had hoped for a better result as well, but chess is chess and Crafty >>isn't exactly a weak program. Win or lose, I like the way it plays chess. >> >>Mogens. > >Oh I agree fully. I just expected Gandalf to do a bit better. Close series, and >still good results... I also agree Crafty is not a weak program, that was not my >intention to be relayed. I was just surprised by the result. > >But in any case, Gandalf does have problems with Crafty, and Fritz 6. It handles >everything else pretty reasonably. I'd say maybe we shouldn't be so suprised that it was so close. Usually when you buy a comercial program (I guess not in this case though) what you end up paying for usually is the features in an interface, and although comercial programs tend to be a bit more refined (maybe not the word) you don't end up getting a big increase in strength over the best freeware. I wish them all the luck in the world selling Gandalf, but it's might be a bit of a tough sale (or is that sail?). Could help to open up a new kind of market. Pete
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