Author: Mike S.
Date: 15:52:14 12/06/02
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On December 06, 2002 at 18:08:52, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>(...) I have played a few houndred speed games with Ruffian and
>at least with the Shredder-book it is an excellent program, it has only one
>weakness (well covered with the big book of Shredder) the opening phase, where
>it plays like a program from the early eighties.
Interesting that you mention that specifice weakness; it's the only one I've
noticed too once or twice, in a small tournament where the engines had to
calculate after the third opening move.
But Ruffian won that tournament anyway :o)
I couldn't say what else is tpyical for that engine, except that it is obviously
competitive and strong... Maybe one thing: In my tournament, it often used only
2/3 of the available thinking time before the time control(s), saving an
unusually big "reserve".
Novemberturnier 2002 (P3/700, 40 moves in 1 hour)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 Ruffian 1.0.1 ** ½1 10 10 11 ½½ 10 ½1 9.0/14
2 Fritz 7 ½0 ** 01 ½½ 11 01 11 01 8.5/14 56.00
3 Chess Tiger 14 01 10 ** 1½ 00 10 11 11 8.5/14 51.50
4 Nimzo 8 01 ½½ 0½ ** 10 ½½ ½1 11 8.0/14 49.25
5 Shredder 5.32 00 00 11 01 ** 11 10 11 8.0/14 48.00
6 Junior 5 ½½ 10 01 ½½ 00 ** 1½ ½0 6.0/14
7 Hiarcs 7.32 01 00 00 ½0 01 0½ ** 11 5.0/14
8 Yace 0.99.56 ½0 10 00 00 00 ½1 00 ** 3.0/14
members.surfeu.at/mscheidl/November.cbv
Regards,
M.Scheidl
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