Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 19:55:06 10/13/03
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On October 13, 2003 at 20:45:40, Mike Byrne wrote: >On October 13, 2003 at 20:22:54, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On October 13, 2003 at 20:16:41, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Believe it or NOT Ruffian 1.0.5 is much better than Fritz 8, Hiarcs 9,Shredder 7 >>>and Chess Tiger 15 and possibly Junior 8. I will post some games tomorrow, but >>>my opinion is that Ruffian 1.0.5 should have been a commercial program. >>> >>>Pichard >> >>Ruffian1.0.5 failed to win WBEC. >> >>Deep Sjeng won it so I do not believe that Ruffian1.0.5 is better than Fritz8 or >>Shredder7. >> >>Uri > >Uri, > >You are so anti-Ruffian , it's not even funny. Yes Deep Sjeng won - by ONE >point out of 84 games. The games are not even full length 40/120 20/60 etc,. > >1: DeepSjeng 1.5 56.5 / 84 >2: Ruffian 1.0.5 55.5 / 84 > >So to say "Deep Sjeng won it so I do not believe that Ruffian 1.0.5 is better >than Fritz8 or Shredder7" is Ruffian bashing. I think if anyone is having an unjustified reaction it's you. The statement in question is: "Ruffian 1.0.5 is much better than Fritz 8, Hiarcs 9,Shredder 7 and Chess Tiger 15 and possibly Junior 8." That is quite a bold statement. It is at best questionable whether Ruffian is even on par with the likes of Fritz and Shredder, and certainly it is not "much better". At the very top, no engine is "much better" than the rest. Sure, there are results showing Ruffian finishing ahead of these engines, and then there are others that don't show that. Why do you and Jorge choose to believe some and then choose not to accept the results from someone as experienced as Leo? I'd trust Leo's tournament results before a lot of other home tournaments. To call Uri anti-Ruffian for disagreeing with an unsubstantiated statement such as Jorge's, when there is evidence against that statement, is a little brash.
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