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

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 13:14:31 03/31/04

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On March 31, 2004 at 13:53:18, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

You can buy IsiChess at Niggemann.  Now is it commercial?  ;)

Don't be so damn technical Uri.



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