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Subject: Re: Fantasy positions ...

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 00:41:46 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 02:49:33, Jouni Uski wrote:

>According to CSS WM position test it's specially good in positional and endgame
>play and relatively weaker in king attack. I think the last means same as
>tactics. But in my test suites it's also good tactically (e.g. it founds some
>well known mate in 18 and 30(!) quite fast). So may be the secret is, that it
>has no big weakness at all. Or what do You think?
>
>Jouni

Hi Jouni,

this program is very strong for king attack.

A program must play the moves which are important for a king attack. Ruffian
make this. Not important are fantasy positions with a clear move. So I am not a
fan from test suits.

In my opinion is the best test suite the LCTII test.
But look what Ruffian here make. Gandalf is over 120 ELO better compare to
Ruffian :-)

An interview with Ruffian programmer Perola Valfridsson is in next days
available on Arena webpage (Ruffian is a partner program from Arena). It's one
of the questions from our interview team.

Best
Frank



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