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Subject: Re: No money in making stronger programs

Author: walter irvin

Date: 15:23:51 12/07/00

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On December 07, 2000 at 05:08:39, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 07, 2000 at 04:55:29, Georg Langrath wrote:
>
>>Yes you are right. And I think it depends on that strength of for example Par
>>Excellence is enough for 99.99 % of people. So why bother about making stronger
>>programs? There is no money in that.
>>
>>Georg
>
>I believe that most of the buyers of the top programs do not buy chess programs
>to play against them so there is money ib doing better chess programs.
>
>Uri

you are 100% right ,if cm 9000 came out and it was 250 elo stronger than the
second best program .people would buy it up and a copy would be hard to find .so
the elo of a program is very important . if it were not important no one would
buy shredder,rebel,fritz,junior ect , because crafty is free and so are alot of
others .



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