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Subject: Re: Are we still waiting better "amateur" than Crafty?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:30:08 05/20/02

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On May 20, 2002 at 12:44:53, Martin Andersen wrote:

>On May 20, 2002 at 04:52:00, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>
>>
>>I guess that Lambchop comes back as freeware because it is not strong enough and
>>is slightly weaker than Crafty based on peter's opinion.
>>
>>About yace I do not know the reason that Dieter did not choose to do it
>>commercial.
>>
>>I hope that at least he is not going to give for free a version that is clearly
>>better than the latest yace.
>
>Why not ? I don't mind having a strong program for free.
>It's up to the author. Nobody can tell him to charge for
>the program.
>It could affect the sale of the commercial programs, but
>competition is healthy. Actually, if strength and price alone decided
>which program normal people would use, then 99% would
>choose Crafty or Yace for example.  These 99% would get
>their asses kicked by these programs.

You assume that the buyers use programs to play against them.

It is a mistake and there are buyers who use programs for other purposes(for
example to play engine-engine games).

Uri



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