Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 17:57:59 06/14/02
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On June 14, 2002 at 13:47:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 Please forgive me (again!!!). I am old and getting quite senile. I lost the thread awhile back and really don't know what is desired from me. I guess I don't know what we are discussing. Sorry about that. :( :( :( :( :( :( Maybe someone younger and brighter than me [Russell???] can pick up my part of this thread and run with it? I've lost it entirely. Hopefully, it's about computer chess. Rolf!!! Where are you??? Help me out!!! [Rolf is an accomplished debater. I flunked debating in high school.] Bob D.
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