Author: pavel
Date: 15:14:33 09/25/02
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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...
Seculations from everyone...
First it's a crafty clone,
it's a Fritz clone,
it's a "hex"-ed version of a strong comercial program,
it has a virus, (...)
it's based on a stolen code by a commercial programmer,
it' a programmer written by the help of a comm. programmer,
it's a program written by a commercial programmer who is using a fake
name.
Truth: It can't be possible coz we could'nt do it ourselves.
It takes a man to face the truth...
;)
cheers,
pavs
ps, rants may follow this post.
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