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Subject: Re: The best program that I have in my computer is a freebie !

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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