Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 05:46:28 10/25/03
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On October 24, 2003 at 18:16:14, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >On October 24, 2003 at 11:47:56, Drexel,Michael wrote: > > >>The Leiden Ruffian version is 10.10.03 and he posted this about 10 days later. >>So unless he has a ballpark full of machines, it is not possible that he has >>played a significant number of tournament games. >>Probably he has tested Ruffian at blitz or active chess time controls. >> >>In chess if you talk about ELO, you usually talk about tournament time control. >>If not you have to state that explicitly. >> >>Michael > >Hi Michael, > >Frank Quisinsky definitely talks about the previous version of Ruffian, the one >prior to the Ruffian 10-10 version (Leiden) (his term is "vorherige Version"). >That particular engine came out in June (June 26) and he's had a lot of time to >play games at longer time controls. Besides, Frank owns a dual Pentium III and >a P4 notebook computer. He may well have played lots and lots of games at >40/40... Which he did, as I happen to know it. I also believe that he posted >the results of the June version of Ruffian on the Arena pages (please refer to >http://www.playwitharena.com/directory/elo.htm). Most of the longer time >control games were played at 40/40. > >Rgds. > >Djordje 40/40 with ponder off is not exactly tournament time control with ponder on. Don't get me wrong. I hope that Ruffian 2 will be as strong as possible. What happens if it turns out after some months that new Ruffian is 'only' about as strong as Fritz 8 is? In this case many users who read such claims will be quite disappointed. That is not desirable. Michael
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