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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 16:44:43 10/14/03

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On October 14, 2003 at 03:00:12, Uri Blass 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.
>>
>>Michael
>
>the difference between 40/40 and 40/120 is not so big.
>
>Your results also did not convince me that Ruffian is better than Fritz8
>or shredder7(I see no significant difference between the results of Ruffian and
>Fritz and shredder).
>
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?320811
>
>I know that Ruffian earns more from time relative to free engines.
>I do not know if the same happen relative to commercial engines.
>
>I know that you use the same book.
>Maybe you can try the following test for Ruffian that was suggested in the past
>by vincent when I claimed that Ruffian is not better than Fritz8:
>
>1)Give Ruffian to play a match against Fritz when you use Shredder's book for
>both engines.
>2)For every opening use the same opening with opposite colors(my suggestion).

Excellent suggestion - I have done that ocassionally.

>3)use long time control.



>
>Vincent believes that Ruffian is going to win at long time control.
>
>I am interested to know the facts both for blitz and for long time control but I
>have no computer time to devote for that task.
>
>It may be also interesting to repeat the experiment for shredder when both sides
>use Fritz's book.
>
>Uri



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