Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 02:05:54 09/06/02
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On September 06, 2002 at 04:34:35, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>On September 05, 2002 at 21:42:39, Aaron Tay wrote:
>
>>On September 05, 2002 at 16:15:36, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>>Why not? What counts is the result you get. BTW my guess is Ruffian is on top.
>>>At FICS it was in the (standard) top-20 at a lousy P2-300. That's amazing. I
>>>would estimate Crafty would have at best 2100 at that hardware. Ruffian is over
>>>2400.
>>
>>I wouldn't be *that* impressed. I have checked on FICS, the hardware running is
>>actually faster than listed...
>
>That is truly disgusting. If there is something I hate it is lying about
>hardware. You got a new computer and do NOT take the 5 seconds to adjust your
>finger notes? Suddenly I am a lot less impressed by Ruffian.
Well you should *still* be impressed... Some current stats on Ruffian running on
a fairly modern 1.4 Ghz computer in ICC..
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Information about ICC member ruffian:
ruffian is a computer program.
rating win loss draw total best
Wild 2126 2 2 0 4 0
Bullet 2644 229 79 60 368 2943 (22-Jan-02)
Blitz 2882 2343 814 678 3835 3097 ( 2-May-02)
Standard 2571 389 138 139 666 2735 (28-Jul-02)
1. Ruffian 0.7.6
2. Hardware: Athlon 1.4Ghz
3. Operator: perola
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That's impressive ..But about on-par with other strong privateware like
Chester (2716, Athlon 1.2 Ghz) ,Searcher (2858, Athlon 1.4 Ghz),Monsoon (2717,
Athlon 1.533 Ghz), Insomanic (2887, Athlon 1.2 Ghz), Zarkov (2898, 2 machines)
,Ferret (2974, 2x1.2 Ghz)...
So it does belong to the class of strongest engines...
I have a list of strong privateware handles at
http://www.chesskit.com/aarontay/Winboard/privateware.html
for easy reference...
Also I notice that Yace in ICC has a 2936 blitz on a 1.33 GHZ computer which is
comparable to Ruffian on ICC. I know this doesn't say much due to the way people
can manitupulate the ratings, but If Ruffian could score almost as well as Yace
on much slower hardware in FICS (Pentium II ,300 versus 1.x GHZ+), I would
expect it to outscore Yace by a big margin on equal hardware..
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Aaron
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