Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:58:41 12/30/05
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On December 30, 2005 at 07:54:31, William Stone wrote: >On December 30, 2005 at 07:41:18, Arshad Syed wrote: > >>It must be a year since I last visited computer chess forums. Ruffian was the >>only amateur program that could really stand up to the professional programs, >>other than the usual Crafty. Now it is amazing to see the progress made by >>Fruit, Zappa and Rybka, which have left Ruffian in the wayside. This is going to >>make life difficult for the professional programmers! > >I believe the authors of both Fruit and Rybka sell their programs. Does this not >make them professional too? I understand the author of Zappa also planned to go >commercial. > >Regards > >William Ruffian is also commercial but a free version was released. Same for fruit and the free version of fruit is clearly stronger than Ruffian. Rybka beta was also released for limited time of 24 hours as a free program. Uri
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