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Subject: The End of Business in Computerchess??

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 01:51:16 08/21/05

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On August 21, 2005 at 02:48:31, Ed Schröder wrote:

>The silence in CCC is deafening...
>
>This is an historic WCCC, the first time a non commercial winning the WCCC since
>1992, it seems their domination period is over. Not to speak about the micro
>WCCC which has been dominated from the very beginning by the commercials.
>
>Congratulations Anthony, you did the impossible and so convincing.
>
>Ed

It seems sub-optimal to pretend the end of domination by commercial programs if
that is expressed by one oldie of the big business people in computerchess, who
has left the scene years ago. Of course - if the best left the building, the
amateurs have enough place to develop their products. But to pretend that they
(the amateurs) are now better than the best commercially driven is to say the
least a fairy tale. It's the other way round. The business godfathers have
retired because there is no big future in this business, simply because the
existing programs are strong enough for 99,999% of the Earth Population.

So, what we see in ZAPPA or FRUIT is just a symptom of the actual economic
crisis of computerchess. These new programs are nothing better than programs
like REBEL or FRITZ who were stopped now.

My best,
Rolf



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