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

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:45:29 10/14/03

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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


"Much better" than the top commercial programs?  Extraordinary statements
require extraordinary proof.

BTW, does everybody remember when Ruffian first appeared and some of the top
programmers went on record saying they were essentially 100% certain that it
could not be a new engine (i.e., that it must be a modified version of one of
the already well-known engines)?  There was a huge debate here on this topic.
May I assume that this has been settled once and for all, and that some big
names in chess programming were simply wrong?  Or is there still lingering
doubt?



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