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Subject: Re: Some explanations about SmarThink

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 13:42:38 06/06/03

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On June 06, 2003 at 16:21:48, Günther Simon wrote:

>On June 06, 2003 at 10:17:53, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On June 06, 2003 at 09:41:51, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>Maybe Ruffian for some reasons performs better under winboard and I think
>>>that it will be a good idea if someone checks if the same moves in the games can
>>>be reproducable under winboard.
>>>
>>>We need to check that no one of the following problems do not happen:
>>>
>>>1)There are book moves that Ruffian knows not to play under winboard but does
>>>not know not to play in the ssdf conditions.
>>>
>>>2)Ruffian needs more time to find the right move in ssdf condition and
>>>practically could not do it in the game when under winboard it could find better
>>>move and avoid weak moves that you describe.
>>
>>Do we know exactly how SSDF has tested Ruffian?
>>I have set up Ruffians as UCI engine and with the winboard adapter in Chessbase
>>and ran a testsuite with both some time ago. The result was that in about 50% of
>>the Testpositions Winboard Ruffian found the solution faster and in 50% UCI
>>Ruffian. The difference between the solution times for a position however was
>>almost always < 3s.
>
>Aarghh! setting up Ruffian (or whatever WB program) with the WB adapter
>under CB proves nothing' and was not what Uri suggested you to do.
>You simply have to set up it in WINBOARD if you want to see if is
>somehow weakened under the CB Gui and I bet it is - I know of cases,
>when the Gui even sent moves which the program never thought of!

You should read more carefully. I wrote 'some time ago'.
In order to use Ruffian in the Fritz 5.32 GUI.
I even have no WINBOARD on my Computers. Fritz,Chessmaster,SCID
and Shredder Classic are more than enough GUIs for me. I plan to install also
the Lokasoft GUI as soon as Gandalf 6 or Rebel 12 are released.

Michael

>
>Regards,
>Günther
>
>http://home.t-online.de/home/g.simon.rgbg/



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