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Subject: Re: Ruffian 1.0.1 very strong in blitz games v. Chess Tiger 14

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 16:29:38 01/09/03

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On January 09, 2003 at 03:59:44, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On January 09, 2003 at 02:16:03, bobby palacios wrote:
>
>>
>>Well, I remember I ran a 100 game test of ChessTiger 14 vs Ruffian 1.01 at game
>>in 3 minutes on my pentium 2.4ghz, a while back when Ruffian 1.01 was hot and it
>>ended quite convincingly 50-25 for CT14 before I stopped it, maybe Christophe
>>has a point.
>
>I'm sure he has, but it is an invalid point by his own standards. I wouldn't be
>surprised if Tiger is the better engine of the two. But using the excuse that
>the program performs bad at certain time controls (that are quite simple to
>implement), seems to me to be hypocritical given Christophe's earlier statements
>about other programs.
>
>/David



I have just given what I think is an important information if you are concerned
by the strength of the engine.

The point is that I think the Chess Tiger engine performs quite well, but it's
time management has a problem.

That's not an excuse. Chess Tiger indeed sucks if you use Fisher time controls
with a big increment.



    Christophe



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