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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