Author: Tony Petters
Date: 05:52:16 11/18/04
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On November 18, 2004 at 07:50:31, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 18, 2004 at 06:41:22, Tony Petters wrote: > >>On November 17, 2004 at 22:15:42, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>On November 17, 2004 at 21:12:24, Tony Petters wrote: >>> >>>>On November 17, 2004 at 10:21:11, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>>> >>>>>In the page of his, Bruce say clearly he is waiting the adequate commercial deal >>>>>OR becoming so poor he should need to get money with ferret. So there are not >>>>>freeware plans for Ferret. >>>>>Fernando >>>> >>>>Ferret is not strong enough to become commercial it is a freebie winboard engine >>>>at best. >>>> >>>>Cordially >>> >>>I presume your comment has some substance to justify it as opposed to being the >>>troll it appears to be. >>> >>> Albert >> >>As I recall it did poorly in a tournament a few years back and was never seen in >>tourney play again. Unless, it can be proven to play at the same level as the >>top programs, it will always remain in the public view where it is now. >> >>Cordially > >The last tournament that I remember Ferret is the following tournament >http://www.vrichey.de/cct5/index_table.htm These are the lower end engines, not the high end commercial programs. I agree that Ferret would be a strong Winboard engine, but a very weak commercial program. > >Note that 2003 is less than 2 years back > >The question if it did poorly is something that I leave to the readers to >decide. > >Yace that is not the best amateur scored better and commercial programs did not >compete but of course one tournament proves nothing. > >Ferret had better results in 2001 when it won a tournament with the same number >of points as deep fritz and a worse tournament in 2002 when it finished only at >place 16 in the table. > >http://www.vrichey.de/cct3/cct3gamestab.htm >http://www.vrichey.de/cct4/index_table.html > >Uri You seem to have forgotten the tourney it was several places back, I believe even Gandalf beat it in the standings.
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