Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:48:02 09/25/02
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On September 25, 2002 at 18:14:33, pavel 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... > >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 I am not so impressed after finding that in the right time control it is losing even against movei. I expect every genius who thinks about the time mangement to understand that in x minutes/y moves you should not divide x/y and decide that it is the time per move. I expect every genius also to fix the problem because it is not hard to change the code to divide by c if y>c. Conclusions: 1)The programmer is probably not a genius 2)Other programmers probably can do better than Ruffian in 4 years. Uri
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