Author: Jeroen Noomen
Date: 13:43:29 10/25/03
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On October 25, 2003 at 12:33:17, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: Djordje, Thanks for the compliments, but I think your statement is wrong. Ruffian was out of book on move 8 (!!!) and came up with 8.Bd5?! by itself. BTW, you played 1.Nf3 and I doubt very much that you anticipated 1... Nc6!? and there would be a Ruy Lopez on the board. Jeroen >Eelco, > >sorry for posting the wry and ironic "if... if", but I couldn't help doing it. >You know better than I that Jeroen Noomen does a fantastic job of preparing >opening lines that may pulverise the opponent. Thus it is very dangerous to use >the most frequently played lines against a Noomen book. The aim was to use an >older, almost forgotten, line and then when both programs are on their own, let >them duke it out under equal conditions. I am happy that we managed to do this >-- exclusively thanks to Perola's magnificent program which most people >experience only as a fast searcher. It will become obvious that Ruffian is >above all a very good positional player... > >As for the Arena / Ruffian commercial project, you may have prompted a good and >logical move :-). Thanks for your comments and reply. > >Djordje
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