Re: Snowie and GNUBG

[Timothy Y. Chow]

Just to be clear, when I talked about regaining ground, I was thinking 
about "market share" and not speed or playing strength.  Market share, of 
course, is controlled by many factors, but if one product has active 
development and another product does not, then the product with active 
development should be in a much better position to increase market share.

Tim

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Joseph Heled wrote:
> My impression is that speed is a factor, but much more it is the XG+ (or 
> ++), i.e. moves based on relatively short truncated rollouts.
>
> Of course, speed is what makes the truncated rollouts possible.
>
> It is a major feature to add, but that would cut a large part of the 
> lead.
>
> -Joseph
>  
>
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 03:06, Tony Lezard <tlezard@gmail.com> wrote:
>       Tim Chow wrote:
>
>       > But being free is always a plus, and now that Xavier seems to
>       > have all but abandoned XG, there could be an opportunity for GNU
>       > to regain ground, if there is the desire for that.
>
>       Xavier is working on XG 3. Expect a release next year.
>
>       Tony