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Subject: Re: Crafty on SSDF?

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 22:09:43 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...
>
>:)

Depends on actually what you would get with a commercial crafty. I am one to buy
programs which have an interface. Rebel, CM6K, Shredder. As for adding engines
if that was all you were offering, even if it could only be gotten commercially,
I would not buy it, like I would not buy any other seperate engine without a
interface.



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