Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:13:54 01/03/03
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On January 03, 2003 at 13:05:54, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On January 03, 2003 at 12:58:20, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On January 03, 2003 at 12:29:02, Mogens Larsen wrote: >> >>>On January 03, 2003 at 12:07:53, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>With a free program as strong as Ruffian 1.0.1 who really need to buy a >>>>commercial program! >>> >>>Quite. The only reason for investing in a commercial program would be the >>>aquirement of a good GUI with the features that suits your needs. Not that the >>>appearance of Ruffian changed that significantly. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Mogens >> >>You cannot decide for other people about the reason for buying chess programs. >> >>Having the best engine is also a reason to buy chess programs and Fritz8 is >>better than Ruffian. >> >>Uri > >I realize that, since I have done several mini matches at different time >controls between these two programs and Fritz 8 is definitively stronger than >Ruffian 1.0.1, but Ruffian will definitively end up in 3rd or 4th place on SSDF. > >Pichard I can add that even in case that Ruffian had the same strength as the best commercial programs there is still a reason to buy the commercial programs. people who use engines for correspondence games may be interested in opinion of more than one engine because a second engine may help them in positions that one engine does not understand. Uri
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