Author: David Dahlem
Date: 13:03:16 07/26/04
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On July 25, 2004 at 22:05:42, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: >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. > If my memory is correct, for what its worth, The Crazy Bishop was not on the Young Talents CD, it was sold separately at a later date. Dave >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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