Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 02:17:09 09/23/02
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On September 23, 2002 at 05:04:09, Jason Williamson wrote: >Sorry, NONE of the 160 free program does what Ruffian is supposed to be able to >do. > >This is like somebody who learnt chess in a coffeeshop somewhere getting to play >Kasparov and beating him in a match. It _COULD_ happen, but how likely is it? Maybe the author of Ruffian is reading CCC since a long time, but just prefers not to post? Or he posts but we don't know his name here. Or he doesn't read CCC at all but made a google search and found tons of articles about computer chess programming there. Or he's scared of the internet but has a friend who prints out all CCC messages and hands them to him. And he writes answers on parchment, his friend scans them in using a scanner (who could have guessed that!) and good OCR software and posts the replies here under a name we don't know. Or maybe it's just Christoph and his CT15! Heck, we simply don't know. Let's just wait and see. :) >Now, if it turns out that Ruffian is for real, I will be quite impressed, and >hell, I will even aplogize for basicly being very suspicious of it. You won't have to apologize for being suspicious. Public accusations are a different story though. (which you didn't do) Sargon (who is also suspicious :)
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