Author: Pete Galati
Date: 21:13:17 10/30/99
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On October 30, 1999 at 22:44:17, Micheal Cummings wrote: >On October 30, 1999 at 17:42:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 30, 1999 at 16:12:12, Pillsbury wrote: >> >>>Hi >>> >>>I must appreciate the programmers who do a fine job of creating a grandmaster >>>who waits for me round the clock, ready to play chess anytime. I even deside how >>>strong he can play depending on my mood! The price I paid is very small. I must >>>appreciate the commercial programmers. There is competition to make sure that >>>there is contribution, improvement etc., This is the way nature works. The >>>fittest will survive. >>> >>>I do not believe in 'free stuff' especially when I want the best! >>> >>>karthick >> >> >>Sorry you feel that way, because you are going to miss Linux, Xwindows, gcc, >>and a zillion other things that are as good or better than anything you can >>get commercially. >> >>However, there is always someone willing to take your money, so you won't >>be disappointed on that front. :) > >From my point of view I have nothing ahinst free stuff, I have found some handy >free programs. > >But when it comes to chess I have always had the impression that freeware chess >programs are not up to standard of commercial. This is clear in the interface, >but from tourmaments that people have run, commercial program always seem to be >better than freeware. > >Many freeware programs seem to be written more because it is a hobby. This does >not include the larger companies which produce internet broswers and the such, >cause they have other agendas to push. > >I do not use any chess program that run on winboard, cause I hate the interface. >For ICC I use Blitzn. > >If you wrote an nice interface for your program years ago, you could have been >rolling in allot of money, thats if you are not already. > >Mental thought dictates that Freeware is cheap in both quantity and quality. You don't understand the concept of freeware at all, they're not trying to be "rolling in allot of money". And the top programs that run in Winboard are far from "cheap" in quality. Crafty, Comet, and Phalanx are all high quality Chess programs, the same can be said for mid strength programs like TCB and Gromit and Lamb Chop and Bringer, not to mention AnMon. There isn't such a wide margin between the strength of the best freeware programs and the best commercial programs. The most you can really expect is to get a good interface with the commercial programs and there's allot to be said for that, but there's not much need to do that any more than maybee once every 5 or more years. Pete
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