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Subject: Re: Ruffian and $$

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:35:22 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?
>
>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.
>
>JW

I think that it is not the same.

The number of programmers who are interested
in chess programming is clearly smaller than
the number of chess players so beating the best chess programmer
in a few years should be easier than beating
the best player in a few years.

Uri



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