Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:56:30 07/26/98
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On July 26, 1998 at 18:34:05, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi: >Do you know if Dave is ever going to deliver a new Wchess version on his own >name and under his own company? I ask you this to you as much I know you have >some contact with him and I have non, not even his email. I cannot ask him >directly, but maybe you ... By the way, is incredible how, once a programmer >puts his engine inside a "mass market" program, it seem to disappear of common >interest of people like us. King engine is a hell of strong, but scarcely gets >half of the comments and words any "professional" programs gets, even if it is >weaker. And why? Because is in the bowels of CM5000, a mass market product. The >same with Wchess, encased in Power Chess 98. This is somewhat silly as much as >"mass market" are not precisely mass market darlings, neither professional >software does not try to be a mass market succes. Of course Cm sell a lot more >at the end, but is a shame how little concern his engine elicits from us. By the >way, that XWChess is going to be marketed in a way or another or it is the same >or almost in Power? >Fernando First, I'm of the opinion that "The King" is as good as any other commercial engine. It just gets bad press by being a "cheapie" product with perhaps not the best "front end". And then there is the SSDF issue where it doesn't learn and gets killed. For those that think SSDF ratings mean everything, the King gets left behind, which is unfortunate... because it can beat anybody. Wchess (Dave's "official engine") is *very* strong. But I don't bug him about how it gets marketed although I'll ask next chance I get, as he is on ICC regularly. But, if you think back, he's *always* been in the mode of producing engines that are somewhat anonymous, buried in a dedicated machine or whatever (he still does this btw, as in the Novag stuff..)
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