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Subject: Re: So what was/is Bob's verdict about Ruffian?

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 13:43:40 10/03/02

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On October 03, 2002 at 14:27:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 03, 2002 at 01:06:05, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Now when we know the facts: new program from scratch and 100 points stronger
>>than Crafty (in comp-comp play at least). Quite an achievement or what?
>>
>>Jouni
>
>
>Bob never had any strong opinion at all.  I looked at the executable very
>quickly and
>was pretty convinced it was not crafty even before doing so, because of some of
>the
>search results posted here.
>
>That is my only conclusion to date.  It _might_ be 100 points stronger.  It
>might not be.
>Hard to say since the book is a critical part of the system and the Crafty book
>as
>distributed is really too wide for comp vs comp play due to the requirements of
>a wide
>book for the chess servers.  It could still be a clone of another program.  Or a
>program
>written with a lot of help by some well-known (but unrevealed) author.
>
>Who knows?
>
>And, from my perspective, who cares?

Stubborn but no stupid... :-)



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