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Subject: Re: SSDF(Yace Paderborn - Ruffian 1.0.1)A1200, 1½-½, now 7-16

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 12:22:33 03/13/03

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On March 13, 2003 at 14:12:58, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Ruffian seems to be much better than many other programs at learning.  I would
>suggest looking at the actual games and see if Yace is being punished for a bad
>line.

Ruffian is used as an UCI engine, ie. no learning. But there has been at least a
couple of poor opening variations chosen by Yace, which is almost impossible to
avoid with an autogenerated book. Even so, a substantial Elo point advantage for
Ruffian isn't that surprising IMHO.

Regards,
Mogens



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