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Subject: Re: Crafty Fever?

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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