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Subject: Re: Ruffian is here - Make your move Bob Hyatt!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:01:55 09/23/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 14:43:23, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On September 23, 2002 at 14:19:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Ruffian could be any of the following, in decreasing order of probability:
>>
>>1.  A copy of a freeware engine with some changes or additions.
>
>From posted results, no freeware engine is close to the strength of Ruffian. You
>mentioned yourself, that it is "easy" to reach some 2300 Elo level, but it is
>very hard, to improve Crafty. Why should anybody, that can improve any freeware
>engine that much, not be able, to write it from scratch anyway?

It is possible that it is not hard to improve crafty significantly
if you think about the right ideas.

I believe that for me the main problem is not to think about better
algorithms but to implement them in programming.

Uri



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