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Subject: Re: RUFFIAN finds Rd4!!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:51:33 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 04:57:33, Daniel Clausen wrote:

you would be considered a fool saying that :)

also christophe would be stupid. look diep runs under linux
for god knows how many years. Only like 5 people ever emailed me
asking after diep for linux. That's less than 0.1 promille of the
emails i got about diep for windows ;)

>On October 07, 2002 at 22:13:09, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>It is much more interesting to point out that Ruffian finds it. Even if it
>>takes longer than Tiger 15 or Genius 2.
>>
>>You are not going to get much attention by mentionning that Tiger would have
>>played it.
>
>It would get much more attention if Tiger15 would find it while running under
>Linux. :))
>
>Probably less interesting but more relevant is the fact that more or less all
>computers evaluate the moves Rd2, Rd4 and Rd1 similar (+= 0.1 pawns) and whether
>a specific engine at specific settings at a specific day time on a specific
>computer prefers Rd4 over Rd2 is just a matter of luck. (ie Crafty also prefers
>Rd4 for a very long time, then it switches to Rd2, and after some time it may
>switch back to Rd4 again, or Rd1, who knows :)
>
>Sargon



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