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Subject: Re: Ruffian 0.76 is still playing incredible strong!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:01:57 09/19/02

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On September 19, 2002 at 05:59:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 19, 2002 at 05:19:07, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>> 1: Ruffian 0.76    20.0 / 24
>> 2: Gandalf 5.1     15.5 / 24
>> 3: WBNimzo 2000b   15.0 / 24
>> 4: Yace 0.99.56    14.5 / 24
>> 5: Pharaon 2.62    13.5 / 25
>> 6: Zarkov 4.5y     12.5 / 25
>> 7: LambChop 10.88  12.0 / 24
>> 8: Pepito 1.55     10.0 / 24
>> 9: Quark 1.76      10.0 / 24
>>10: Shredder 3.0    10.0 / 24
>>11: Comet B.48-2    10.0 / 24
>>12: Gromit 3.8.2     9.5 / 24
>>13: Nejmet 3.06      8.5 / 24
>>14: Patzer 3.61      8.0 / 24
>>
>>And still the only thing I know about program is the author: Per-Ola
>>Valfridsson!
>>Google search gives him 1774 rating - so his about mine level. But his program
>>seems to play around 2800?!?!?!?!
>>
>>Jouni
>
>The rating of the author is totally unimportant.
>
>I have some questions:
>
>1)How much time did the author work on his program?
>2)What did he read to help him to develop his program?
>What are the free source codes that he looked at and how much of them did he
>understand?
>3)Did the author claimed that he is going to do the program freeware?
>I read this claim but not from the author but only from other people.
>
>I doubt if to believe it and I will also have the same doubts if someone tells
>me that one of Fritz,Tiger or Junior are going to be freeware espacially when
>the teller is not the author of one of these programs.
>
>Uri

Note that if Ruffian0.76 is going to be freeware only in 2010 then the claim
that it is going to be freeware is misleading.

My understanding was that the claim was that ruffian is going to be freeware in
the near future and my interpertation is 2002.

Uri



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