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Subject: Re: Correction : the Weakest commercial program match, latest version !

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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