Author: Chessfun
Date: 12:31:09 09/06/02
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On September 06, 2002 at 05:05:54, Aaron Tay wrote:
>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..
>
>=====================================================================
>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
>=======================================================================
>
>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..
>
>
>========================================================================
>
>Aaron
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the link, interesting page.
Do you think any of these "privateware" programs are clones of existing
programs?
Sarah.
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