Author: Peter Berger
Date: 04:08:25 04/30/03
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On April 30, 2003 at 05:29:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 29, 2003 at 17:52:27, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On April 29, 2003 at 17:31:46, Jarkko Pesonen wrote: >> >>>You can extend search time in analysis by command: st time_in_milliseconds >>>e.g. st 8640000 >>>and search will continue for 24 hours >>> >>>i.e if I remenber correctly >>> >>> >>>Jarkko >>> >>>P.S. >>>Ruffian is incredible >> >>Yes, this should definitely work if you use Ruffian in text modus (and it is >>pretty clever ;) ). According to the author current public version of Ruffian >>interprets analysis as "Game in 833 hours", next one won't. >>I have only used Ruffian as an UCI engine so far or in engine matches with >>WinBoard but I will give your tip a try when I feel like letting it analyze >>forever next time. >> >>And yes, I agree that Ruffian is _really_ incredible, not only when compaired to >>other free programs! Especially with slow timecontrols. > >Does Ruffian do better at long time control relative to the best commercials >programs (Shredder7.04 and chessmaster9000). > >I doubt it. > IMHO it is possible to play weaker than the best commercials and still be incredible, especially for a program that is free. On my computers Ruffian played more successful in engine matches against other WinBoard programs at slower time controls compaired to Blitz. But I am most impressed by its analysis abilities with deep searches,especially its evaluation looks very accurate, but that can't really be tested IMHO, nor am I interested to do such a test.
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