Author: José Carlos
Date: 08:35:41 11/20/01
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On November 20, 2001 at 11:13:43, Slater Wold wrote: >On November 19, 2001 at 23:10:21, enrico carrisco wrote: > >>>>>>I appreciate all the participants, and the work and dedication that's going to >>>>>>go into this tournament. >>>>>> >>>>>>However, I think it's kind of sad that none of the commercial programs have >>>>>>entered yet. >>>>> >>>>>Well, I hadn't exactly considered HIARCS to be freeware... ;) >>>>> >>>>>-elc. >>>>> >>>>>>There is still plenty of time to register, so I hope before it's too late, Chess >>>>>>Tiger 14.0, Gambit Tiger 2.0, Deep Fritz, Deep Shredder, and Deep Junior are on >>>>>>this list. Nimzo and Little Goliath would be nice to see too. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Slate >>>> >>>>Yea, but it's beta. I don't consider it commercial. >>>> >>>>I consider it in the class of Ferret. >> >>So if a beta version of Fritz or Nimzo shows up, it too should not be considered >>commercial, but in the class of Ferret. I'm not sure where you're going with >>this. >> >>-elc. > >If a computer program enters that is not publicly available I cannot see calling >it "commercial". > >I can't make it anymore simple than that. Come on! Fritz 6 with some changes can be called Fritz 7, so it is the same program, with some changes: "different versions of the same program". Hence, a commercial program with some changes is still the same program, so still commercial. It's easy to understand... José C.
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