Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:04:04 09/25/02
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On September 25, 2002 at 14:25:33, Roy Eassa wrote: >On September 25, 2002 at 14:10:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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... > > >So the author might be somebody other than that Swedish fellow whose name has >been mentioned here several times? What is his role, then, I wonder? And who >might the author really be? (Are there top-rank computer chess authors in >Sweden?) I wouldn't begin to try to speculate who might be involved. Not enough information... The "author" might really be the author, with a lot of help from someone that is involved in a commercial program, or perhaps it is just a new program, however unlikely that seems...
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