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Subject: Re: Crafty Why?

Author: Andrey Popov

Date: 03:09:51 10/30/03

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On October 29, 2003 at 21:18:10, William Dozier wrote:

>Good Day every/one. Perhaps someone can answer this question: Crafty
>has been around for a long time; how many of you remember crafty when it
>first came out in the old CCC news/paper? Since that time a lot of strong free
>chess programs have been out, but why is crafty not as strong as Junior or
>Shredder and a feww other chess programs? I get the feeling that just because
>its free, that it can/not become as strong as Shredder or Junior. So what is
>the hold back for Crafty being*************
> stronger and better than Shredder or Junior?

Crafty has an open source.
All commercial authors can use Crafty ideas plus their own ideas.
Crafty cannot use the commercial secret ideas.



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