Author: Steve Glanzfeld
Date: 19:05:42 07/25/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 20:57:06, José Carlos wrote: >Is there an official definition for "professional chess programmer" written >somewhere? What is "official"? :) When an organisation, person or company calls it "official"? For example, there may be ~300 chess progammers most of which will consider ICGA being a kind of authority. But probably there are MILLIONS of chess program users. ICGA is programmer orientated, not user orientated. So I do not accept ICGA as being official from my viewpoint, and what they say or do is insignificant for me. (I think that some chess programmers are only interested in competition with other progammers or with GMs and don't care much for any "users", which is ok as long as they don't intend to attach price badges.) It's easier to distinguish between commercial or freeware programs, than between professional or amateur programmers... I think, that CB. Young Talents CD was an exception though. It was a collection of engine versions (converted to chessbase engine protocol for that purpose), which remained in the amateur/freeware pool nevertheless. SOS was also sold once, together with Shredder 5 (Millennium). There also is a commercial edition of Goliath (Blitz) and probably of other engines which are offered free at the same time, in other or newer versions, too. I don't remember more examples at the moment. Steve
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