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Subject: Re: Ruffian is here - Make your move Bob Hyatt!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:29:30 09/23/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 08:26:30, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>On September 23, 2002 at 08:20:06, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>On September 23, 2002 at 08:11:09, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>>
>>>Besides that I - same as Uli - don't have enough fantasy to think of a
>>>way of how this could be done.
>>
>>your fantasy is limited ??
>
>Hi Thorsten,
>
>if yours isn't then please tell me a way how to take an existing engine which
>must be a commercial one if the posted results are true and wrap it into
>something which ruffian provides.


This has already been done.  Take a hex editor.  Edit the executable.  Change
strings to anything you want.  Different commands.  Different filenames.
Different greeting.  Different everything except for executable code.  No idea
if this was or was not done.  But it has been done in the past...




>
>Ok, there are some ways which I can think of but which I wont post here because
>they would be insulting and far away from what I really think.
>
>Another possibility could be that the author of ruffian is in reality a well
>known commercial chess programmer or has at least a "ghostwriter". :-) Well, as
>I said, I DONT THINK THAT THIS IS THE CASE, but you challenged my fantasy ;-)
>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.



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