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Subject: Re: Crafty not for free download anymore :-(

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:40:01 03/25/99

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On March 25, 1999 at 10:08:55, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On March 25, 1999 at 10:02:37, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On March 25, 1999 at 08:05:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On March 25, 1999 at 07:08:57, Robert Ericsson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have just read at Gambit-SOFT News that Crafty will not be for free
>>>>download anymore.
>>>>
>>>>I can understand Dr. Hyatt's decision and all I can say is a BIG thank you
>>>>to Bob for all previous free downloads of Crafty!!
>>>>
>>>>I enjoy Crafty very much. I hope we will hear from you here at CCC though.
>>>>Good luck with your future programming!
>>>>
>>>>Yours sincerely,
>>>>Robert Ericsson
>>>
>>>
>>>Crafty will continue to be available.  Just not via anonymous ftp, so that I
>>>can maintain some sort of control over it.  I don't know how it will be done
>>>just yet, but details will be posted here soon.
>>
>>Maybe you can distribute executables by anonymous FTP. My guess
>>is that at least 80% of Crafty users will be happy with it.
>>
>>Eugene
>
>I would certainly miss the free Crafty executable download! And my guess would
>be that close to 95% would be happy with just the executables. But I hope
>ChessBase still can have the source for compiling, as I love to use Crafty in CB
>7.0
>
>Torstein

Mathias has already asked, and I responded that _nothing_ had changed with
respect to ChessBase...  Crafty will be available...  just under more controlled
circumstances that I don't quite know yet...

but no 'charge' ever, as I have often said..



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