Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 12:21:40 10/14/03
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On October 14, 2003 at 12:45:29, Roy Eassa 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 > > >"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? "The world of computerchess is very paranoic." From a mail sent to me some years ago, written by a very knowledable man in Spain. I have kept these words in my mind and seen them verified again and again... and again... /S
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