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Subject: Re: Ruffian!! simply the best

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 19:45:35 12/28/02

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On December 28, 2002 at 19:42:38, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On December 28, 2002 at 09:45:02, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>[D] 8/8/pp6/2pp2p1/3p2Pk/3P1K1P/5PP1/8 b - - 0 1
>>
>>Ruffian is the best analysis-engine I can think of.
>>Ruffian 1.0.1 (96 MB hash)on Athlon@1.6Ghz finds the mate in 13
>>in 5 sec (Yes 0:05!!) . This is amazing.
>>hey you out there with your 2.8 Ghz Xeons and Deep Fritz 7 engines.
>>Try to beat that!
>>hope Per-ola will bring out a native Chessbase version of this great program
>>soon because there exists some problems with UCI version in Chessbase GUI.
>>I would pay 25$ for a native CB engine.
>>I dont need chess engines with much positional knowledge for analysis. every
>>chessplayer >2200 has much more positional knowledge than all chess-engines
>>together.
>
>Aside from using Ruffian to find mates, what would you use it for?  What does
>any chess master do with a chess engine during analysis, and why?  Also, other
>than positional analyses, what else do you NOT use a chess analysis engine for?
>How can you tell when you are becoming too dependent on the analysis engine?
>
>I really do want to know.
>
>Incidentally, I am not a chess master.
>
>Bob D.

I am not a chess master too. my playing strength is near 2300 ELO.

I use chess engines only to go quickly through my games. it doesnt help much to
improve your strength, but it is much easier to forget a chess game if you know
where you went wrong.
even if you win a chess game quite convincingly, there are some things you were
not sure about during play.
I dont like to wake up in the middle of the night and set up a position just to
make something clear.

Im able to analyse most of my games in not more than 20 minutes with the help of
an engine. that is why I prefer fast searchers. the engine has not much time for
analysing a specific position. I am too dependent on analysis engines but I have
not enough time to analyse my games thorough without.

you look at the 5 or 6 best lines in analysis mode and decide quickly which
lines are worth for more investigation. this is just a matter of experience.
when everything seemed to be clear you went on to the next move until game is
finished or at least decided. if a position is too complicated mark it unclear
which of course simply means: I dont know.



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