Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 10:47:02 06/14/02
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On June 14, 2002 at 11:39:02, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >My perception is that producers of the commercial chess programs live in a >different world, when compared to the world of the amateur chess programmers. > >As I see it, the commercial guys have to think differently. They are obligated >to consider money-related considerations, whereas the amateurs are not. > >For example: Suppose a commercial chess program worked great on one or more >computers but "not so good" on others. The money consequence might be >significant if the program worked poorly on many **popular** computers. You are ignoring my point. The SSDF uses a popular computer combination. Moreover, if a commercial program does poorly on a widely used platform, that _will_ have its consequences for sales once the word gets out (which doesn't tend to take long), not to mention generating additional problems for the programmer when testing/playing tournaments. -- GCP
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