Author: Pete Galati
Date: 21:38:51 09/10/00
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On September 11, 2000 at 00:26:59, Jason Williamson wrote: >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 Oh, and not to mention that you'll also be able to use it as a Winboard engine on a Chess server if you have a computer account, that alone will sell several copies I think. I'm rather interested in seeing how Gandalf does online. Pete
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