Author: maria clara benedicto
Date: 08:09:59 09/21/02
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Hallo! Does it really matter? regards maria On September 21, 2002 at 10:07:02, Peter Skinner wrote: >Personally I agree with Bob on this one. > >For Ruffian to be as strong as it is, and no one ever hear about it until a few >weeks ago is kind of suspicious. > >The results against the commercial products is what makes me believe this. There >has only one post where Ruffian has lost a series to a commercial product. This >to me sounds a little fishy. > >When Ruffian started on FICS quite a while ago the account used Fritz 5.32 via >the Ebbi autoplayer for it's games, on a PII 300 Mhz system. A few weeks later >out comes the Ruffian engine and not a single rating point difference came of >it. It was doing well for the hardware and the program used being Fritz. I >thought and actually asked several times about the hardware used and I was only >ever told to read the finger notes like the operator couldn't remember what he >put there. > >I remember this only because the operator of the account was actually very rude >in asking for help getting the autoplayer to work correctly. He was having >problems with the winboard commandline options for the auto player. > >So personally I don't believe this is a _new_ engine. Rather an _old_ engine >simply renamed and possibly a few perameters changed to attain the results it >has. > >I would not doubt it is simply Fritz or something. > >If I left any doubt I will say again. If you look on the "doubters" fence, I >will be sitting next to Robert drinking coffee.
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