Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 00:18:00 10/14/03
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On October 13, 2003 at 22:55:06, Russell Reagan wrote: >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. I feel that Uri is anti-Ruffian (from other statements in the past) altough I agree Jorge's statement is merely hype. Aaron
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