Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:49:07 12/31/01
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On December 31, 2001 at 10:32:29, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On December 31, 2001 at 10:23:03, Robert Pope wrote: > >>And there are plenty of weak commercial programs out there, written essentially >>to be able to say, "and it plays chess, too." Even Microsoft has a chess >>program that is not very strong. Also, look in the bargain bin at your software >>store and you will certainly find a "1000 pc games" CD that has chess on it. It >>is commercial and nowhere near the strength of the other 3. >> >>Plus, you list Chessmaster 8000, but there are places to still buy Chessmaster >>4000, which should be weaker. > >I thought that it would be common sense to just consider the latest versions of >the weakest commercial chess programs. The reason for having this match is to >award a yearly winner, and probably force these programmers to work harder in >order to avoid being on the list every year. It is probably not going to help to achieve the target that you want. I believe that part of these programmers are not interested today in computer chess. I guess that the programmer of chessmaster is more interested in other thinking games. Uri
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