Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 21:18:28 09/10/00
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On September 10, 2000 at 23:57:21, Jason Williamson wrote: >On September 10, 2000 at 22:13:08, Pete Galati wrote: > >>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 > > >Actually, I am quite tempted to buy Gandalf. Because it is winboard,that means >it is much more compatible with other programs and therefore more useful to me. > >JW I agree, there are not to many commercial programs that can be _easily_ interfaced with Winboard. That to me a very good selling feature.
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