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Subject: Re: Crafty Fever?

Author: Alexander Kure

Date: 01:53:33 11/25/99

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On November 24, 1999 at 18:05:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...


Nimzo 7.32 is running under Winboard (ICC handle Varguz).

Greetings
Alex



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