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Subject: Re: How times have changed within a year!!

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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