Author: blass uri
Date: 03:48:14 08/31/98
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On August 31, 1998 at 00:01:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 29, 1998 at 16:44:19, blass uri wrote: > >> >>On August 28, 1998 at 15:32:41, Inmann Werner wrote: >> >>>Your idea is good,but the real good ideas, which make the difference between >>>the profi programs and amateur programs >> >>I think you should say the difference between crafty and better programs >>because profi programs are not better than amateur(Junior5 is amateur) >> > > > >First, Junior 5 is *not* an amateur program. It is being sold, just like >Fritz, Genius, etc. It hasn't been released, yet, but it is a commercial >program. I understood that Junior5 and other commercial programs like chesstiger are amateur programs because the programmers have a full Job not in doing the program. The question is what is the definition of amateur. If you define amateur program as not commercial program then I agree that Junior5 is not amateur. > >Second, from the remainder of the "amateur" programs, I haven't seen any >remarkable results... They are all playing pretty well, no one (IMHO) is >significantly better than the others... I'd personally take my chances against >any of them and expect to do reasonably well, for example. I see that crafty has very good results in mclane's tournament and it is a surprising result because I expect commercial programs to be better because they have the advantage that noone can learn the source code of them. Uri
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