Author: pavel
Date: 04:35:06 09/19/02
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On September 19, 2002 at 06:01:57, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Ruffian will come with the next update of Arena with the installation and without the installation, as a winboard engine. Just like programs like AnMon and SoS comes with the Arena Installation package. The programmer himself said he will release it very soon, from what I understand, he wants to port it under other OS too. When will Ruffian come out? The same time next update of Arena will. cheers, pavs
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