Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 07:54:24 05/20/02
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On May 20, 2002 at 04:40:47, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 20, 2002 at 04:15:14, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>I wonder, if there will ever be significantly stronger amateur/free engine than >>Crafty? With significant I mean 30-50 rating points . Of course ever is very >>long time... If some engine reaches that performance may be it goes to >>commercial >>soon. >> >>Jouni > >I hope that we never see it. > >Crafty is good enough and if there is going to be something clearly better that >is free then it is going to be a disaster for computer chess. > >I am afraid that in that case part of the programmers of the free programs are >going to give up and stop develop their program. Really? It just gives them a bigger target to shoot for :) . Or do you mean commercial programmers? I'm sure commercial programmers welcome the challenge from ametuers, but i admit people like Hyatt, Dieter Bürßnere (for the 1% or less of chessplayers who know of Yace) sure make it more difficult for them to earn our money. >I think that everyone who develop something that is significantly better than >Crafty should sell it or at least make it private and not free. We have discussed this at the Winboard forum before, and you are writing this from the point of view of the programmer who hopes one day to sell his engine.Is that correct? Aaron >Uri
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