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Subject: Re: For all author of engines that may make stupid tactical blunders

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 13:00:50 02/16/05

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On February 16, 2005 at 15:52:17, George C Williams wrote:

>I'm not trying to be funny so don't take it the wrong way, but with all the
>brain power that goes into developing crafty why hasn't it reached the top five?
>I mean isn't there like thousands of people contributing to it's development?

This is an easy one!
The top 5 aren't open source.
Top x can borrow any idea from Crafty that they find good and add that to the
program while their own ideas are not revealed.

Supposing that the programming skill is equal this is a big advantage for the
others.
/Peter



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