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Subject: Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:10:22 09/25/02

On September 25, 2002 at 13:27:10, Roy Eassa wrote:

>
>Is Ruffian really a completely new chess engine that is very, very strong?
>Christophe estimated the chances of this to be 0.01% in an earlier thread.
>
>(I'm catching up here after a couple weeks of PC problems, but recent Ruffian
>messages seem to be relatively positive.)

re-read what he wrote.  He said that the chances of a total "unknown" writing
such a strong engine alone is very small.  That doesn't preclude the program
being new.  And if it _is_ new, that suggests that another possibility we
both hinted at might be the case... namely that the author is not as unknown
as we might think...

Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? pavel 15:14:33 09/25/02
- Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Uri Blass 15:48:02 09/25/02
  - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? pavel 16:00:05 09/25/02
    - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Uri Blass 16:22:00 09/25/02
      - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Sune Larsson 22:46:31 09/25/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Uri Blass 23:35:28 09/25/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Daniel Clausen 05:32:01 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Yuriy Lyapko 01:05:35 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Uri Blass 01:31:29 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Sune Larsson 03:33:35 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Uri Blass 04:06:43 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Sune Larsson 05:31:11 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Uri Blass 08:17:40 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Sune Larsson 08:28:28 09/27/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Uri Blass 09:10:34 09/27/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Sune Larsson 10:12:50 09/27/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Miguel A. Ballicora 07:35:48 09/28/02
      - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? pavel 16:37:49 09/25/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Sune Fischer 17:08:05 09/25/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? pavel 17:34:04 09/25/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Sune Fischer 00:54:57 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Robert Hyatt 19:16:15 09/25/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Roy Eassa 14:12:10 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Daniel Clausen 05:42:28 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Robert Hyatt 08:22:37 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Daniel Clausen 08:31:07 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? pavel 04:59:24 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Robert Hyatt 08:29:29 09/26/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Jonas Cohonas 23:51:32 09/25/02
        
        Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Robert Hyatt 08:30:24 09/26/02
    - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Jonas Cohonas 16:12:59 09/25/02
      - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? pavel 16:35:10 09/25/02
Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Roy Eassa 11:25:33 09/25/02
- Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Robert Hyatt 13:04:04 09/25/02
  - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Steve Maughan 15:10:09 09/25/02
    - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Thorsten Czub 16:25:19 09/25/02
- Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Dan Andersson 12:40:54 09/25/02
- Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Dann Corbit 11:36:38 09/25/02
  - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Roy Eassa 12:30:39 09/25/02
    - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Robert Hyatt 13:06:54 09/25/02
  - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Hartmut Woldeit 12:13:12 09/25/02
    - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Uri Blass 12:48:24 09/25/02
      - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Hartmut Woldeit 16:17:05 09/25/02
      - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Dann Corbit 13:10:58 09/25/02
    - Re: Has Christophe's 0.01% chance actually occurred? Dann Corbit 12:45:55 09/25/02

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