Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:05:25 11/24/99
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On November 24, 1999 at 17:34:10, odell hall wrote: >Why so many crafty's on Icc? Hardly no fritzy's and commericials. Is it >because People don't like to run the programs manually? You could take a pent >233 and clean up all the crafty's on icc (expext for Crafty itself) using fritz >or chessmaster, this is why I can't understand this crafty craze. There is enough that you don't understand to write a _book_. Feel free to stop by with a 233 and "clean up". You do know that "crafty" doesn't have the fastest hardware on ICC? Faster machines include "Lippy" running on a dual alpha 21264 (it is at least 50% faster than my quad xeon. We have also had someone running a 6 cpu xeon 550 a couple of weeks ago. And there are plenty of dual 500's and the like there that will prove to be a real mouthful for a 233mhz pentium. > Perhaps it's >simply lazyness. Or perhaps it is because there are no commercial programs that can run thru winboard? There are likely other perfectly reasonable explanations as well... > Also why not winboard runs some of the commericials? What's the >politics involved? Do they have to have the programmers consent? How exactly >does the process work? You have to write the interface. Commercial programmers don't seem particularly interested in supporting non-commercial interfaces like xboard/winboard, for reasons they will have to explain...
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