Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 21:26:59 09/10/00
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On September 11, 2000 at 00:18:28, Peter Skinner wrote: >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. That feature + since its winboard, it will work (in theory) with other commercial engines, ie CM8000, CB, Fritz, MCS, and so on. JW
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