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Subject: Re: What is Ruffian?

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 09:58:00 07/25/02

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On July 24, 2002 at 17:40:08, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>It plays at CCC and has a standard rating over 2700, claiming to play at a
>1.4Mhz Intel processor. That's higher than some Tigers and Fritzes on MUCH
>faster hardware! Tao has lost all games it played without chance from the
>beginning. WHAT is it???

Like the others said, almost certainly a commercial program. It has beaten up
Arasan pretty badly too, although it hasn't always won:

   0  2649 ruffian    2398 ArasanX    1-0 [ sr 20  10] B86 Res 22-Jul-02
   1  2642 ArasanX    2912 ruffian    1-0 [ br  5   8] B01 Res 06-Jul-02
   2  2640 ArasanX    2919 ruffian    0-1 [ br  5   8] E97 Res 05-Jul-02
   3  2641 ruffian    2472 ArasanX    1-0 [ sr 15   5] E98 Res 19-May-02
   4  2480 ArasanX    2656 ruffian    1-0 [ sr 15   5] B77 Res 18-May-02
   5  2380 ArasanX    2635 ruffian    0-1 [ sr 15   5] D97 Res 18-Mar-02
   6  2563 ArasanX    2932 ruffian    0-1 [ br  5   8] B09 Res 18-Feb-02
   7  2630 ruffian    2404 ArasanX    1-0 [ sr 15   5] E97 Res 17-Feb-02
   8  2571 ArasanX    2868 ruffian    0-1 [ br  5   8] D85 Res 25-Jan-02
   9  2509 ruffian    2330 ArasanX    1-0 [ sr 20  10] E62 Res 21-Jan-02
  10  2339 ArasanX    2500 ruffian    0-1 [ sr 20  10] B65 Res 21-Jan-02
  11  2601 ArasanX    2913 ruffian    0-1 [ br  5   8] A20 Res 03-Dec-01
  12  2576 ArasanX    2960 ruffian    0-1 [ br  5   8] A48 Res 17-Sep-01
  13  2957 ruffian    2579 ArasanX    1-0 [ br  5   8] E98 Res 16-Sep-01
  14  2531 ArasanX    2839 ruffian    0-1 [ br  5   8] A30 Res 12-Sep-01
  15  2676 ruffian    2612 ArasanX    1-0 [ br  5   8] C17 Res 01-Sep-01
  16  2627 ruffian    2641 ArasanX     =  [ br  5   8] D37  NM 01-Sep-01
  17  2698 ArasanX    2609 ruffian    1-0 [ br  5   8] E00 Res 28-Aug-01
  18  2659 ruffian    2642 ArasanX     =  [ br  5   8] B45 Rep 28-Aug-01
  19  2573 ArasanX    2652 ruffian     =  [ br  5   8] E41  50 26-Aug-01

--Jon



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