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

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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