Author: Mike S.
Date: 19:36:09 01/16/01
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On January 16, 2001 at 17:53:26, Roy Eassa wrote: >On January 16, 2001 at 17:30:51, John Wentworth wrote: > >>What programs would be on an American team, other than Crafty ? > >I was kind of wondering that too. How has Europe come to dominate in this >field? While some of the american chess programs seem to be in a state of retirement (i.e. Sargon, and also Wchess I'm afraid), others don't go commercial. Crafty, Ferret, Insomniac, just to mention a few, undoubtly have the potential to hit the top ten in every chess programs chart. But I wonder which number of "top" chess programs would be a kind of critical mass, when none of them can sell enough to be profitable, resulting in a decline of the scene. Maybe this situation has already been reached, if you think that good programs like Hiarcs, M-Chess etc. seem to have quit. From my experience (of a fan and customer), I see one danger: It may be much fun for several years, to buy, and update, virtually every new top program, test it, play some games against it etc... but it get's repetitive sooner or later. Some faster solving times, some more won games... is it really worth the money? I'm sure that more people feel the same. So I think, the number of "commercial" programs which can have a lasting success is limited or even diminishing. Regards, M.Scheidl
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