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Subject: Re: Patriot was NOT strong enough to become commercial, since...............

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:53:18 03/31/04

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On March 31, 2004 at 10:54:40, Slater Wold wrote:

>On March 31, 2004 at 06:15:05, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On March 30, 2004 at 10:30:00, Johan Havegheer wrote:
>>
>>>On March 30, 2004 at 10:13:00, Christian Koch wrote:
>>>
>>>>40 moves in 40 minutes
>>>>Pentium III 1200 Mhz
>>>>128 hash
>>>>
>>>FREE Engine(Gothmog) beats commercial (Patriot)
>>>I'm a little bit happy for Gothmog, Hern Koch.
>>>I've tested Gothmog 0.4.7 Sel6 on LCTII and scored 2690 Points.
>>>Not bad for an amateur engine
>>
>>Yes
>>
>>I guess that in the near future the new commercial programs are going to be
>>weaker than the best free programs.
>>
>>Uri
>>
>>Patriot was NOT strong enough to become commercial, since there are a lot of
>>free engines such as: Aristarch 4.41, El Chinito 3.25, Smarthink 0.17a, and
>>Delfi 4.4 that are much stronger. In order for a program to qualify as
>>commercial it should be much better than the top Free engines available.
>>
>>Jorge
>
>And all this time, I thought being a commercial engine just meant it wasn't
>free.  :/
>
>Silly me.

commercial does not mean only not free.
Deep Blue,Ferret or Isichess or falcon are not free but are not commercial.

Uri



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