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Subject: Re: The death of computerchess.

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 08:24:28 12/21/01

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On December 20, 2001 at 21:15:42, Dann Corbit wrote:

>
>Most freely available chess engines have no gui, and those that have one usually
>have a lame one.  Winboard is a completely separate entity.

Christophe was talking the best - me too. I am very much tempted to do a report
on some random amateur GUI and compair it to some random commercial GUI if I can
choose the entries for myself ;-)).


>The professional programs are clearly better.  They always will be.

Hmm - statements like this are always tempting as one counter-example is enough
to prove them wrong. Time will tell if you are right. I am definitely unsure if
a professional program was the best one in 1999 - currently it seems you are
right.

Regards,
pete



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