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Subject: Re: Ruffian played exdactlly like Fritz 6 old (PGN) !!!

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 15:03:54 09/23/02

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On September 23, 2002 at 17:47:39, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

[snip]

>Danach ist die Partie gelaufen und hätte mit Fritz 6 OLD genauso geendet
>wie mit Ruffian.
>
>Zufall?
>
>Eduard

Just a little remark.. I think it's a good thing that people test this new
engine, but there's a little danger here that people are a bit 'blind' when
looking for proofs/hints whether it's a Fritz-clone or whatever.

If you're _looking_ for positions/parts of games where Ruffian plays
similar/thesame as engine X, I'm not surprised at all you will find them. But
that's not a very scientific thing to do. A bit more scientific would be to pick
random positions from games and test then. I'm sure that when I'm looking hard
enough, I also find series of moves of length 10 or more where ChessTiger (the
soon-to-be-Linux-engine ;) plays the same moves as Sinan (that is my engine) -
although most likely for different reasons. That wouldn't mean a thing though.
(other than: it played these 10 moves in this position under this time control
at that day and CT did too)

Having said that, I'm also sceptic so far. But as far as I can tell, the only
thing which really speaks against Ruffian being original work is the fact that..
well.. it doesn't happen every day that a very strong engine appears and most of
CCC-readers didn't hear of it before. That surely says something, but it's very
well possible that Ruffian _is_ the exception here.

Sargon



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