Author: Mark Young
Date: 21:33:48 09/28/99
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On September 28, 1999 at 22:47:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 28, 1999 at 20:18:18, walter irvin wrote: > >>On September 28, 1999 at 20:00:32, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>Whenever Bob decides to start doing some major hacking on 17.x, I hope that he >>>packs off a configured 16.last to SSDF, who could test it out on a 450 and see >>>how well it is stacking up in autoplayer matches. I know Bob doesn't care >>>comp-comp much, but it would be interesting to see nonetheless. >>> >>>Dave >>people might be shocked just how well crafty stacks up against , the chessbase >>elite . if bob ever decided to sell crafty , he would out sell every body >>.crafty has no glaring weakness . on the plus side it has it all , even smp >>which i think is a big deal .plus every body is familiar with crafty , has a >>large following . > > >I would have to disagree with the "outsell everybody". A while back, a CCC >Poll question asked who would be willing to buy crafty if it was to go >commercial (not a question I suggested as this is not in any plans of mine at >all)?" The answer was that out of maybe 150 folks, I think 1-2 said yes, the >rest said "no". Which further convinced me that commercial aspirations were out >of the question, not that they ever were a real option... > >:) If it were an option, this would be easy to get around. Just give Crafty another name. Make some claims that this new program has been rewritten from scratch for much better performance. Chess consumers love to here stuff like that.
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