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Subject: Re: Did Ferret ever become Freeware?

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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