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Subject: Re: Fact or Fiction? My take on the hoax.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:06:27 09/23/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 16:31:29, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 23, 2002 at 15:28:15, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On September 23, 2002 at 15:20:49, George Sobala wrote:
>>
>>>On September 23, 2002 at 15:18:35, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>1.  I don't think it is a hoax.
>>>>2.  I don't think it is a clone.
>>>>3.  I think the author is to be congratulated.
>>>
>>>I think you are probably right, assuming that you refer to Ruffian.
>>>
>>>BTW it's not Fritz7 or Shredder 6.02 (they have completely different evals when
>>>analyzing side by side.)
>>
>>I am pretty good at recognizing clones.  At least 1/4 of all Winboard engines
>>are a clone of something (mostly TSCP).
>
>It may be interesting to have a list of the known clones.

Probably half of them openly say that they are modified versions of whatever.
The others are less open about it.  There are a few that have boldly proclaimed
to be a totally new engine.  It is actually pretty easy to find out most of the
time.  If you have the program strings.exe, you can often quickly find out for
yourself.



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