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Subject: Re: Congrats to Ruffian!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:01:43 10/27/03

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On October 27, 2003 at 07:29:38, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On October 26, 2003 at 14:44:32, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>On October 26, 2003 at 14:31:25, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>>
>>Hi Djordje,
>>
>>Of course you are right. But I am not complaining :-). I'll leave that to
>>Vincent. I was in a good mood today anyway, as Tiger did some good work against
>>Diep. Needless to say Vincent was relatively quiet during that game :-)
>
>replace the word 'tiger' by Noomen.
>
>Without Noomen book, Tiger would be a bad amateur.

Nonsense.

Ruffian showed that book is not very important if you have a strong engine
and the only loss of it against xinix was because of some problems of the
engine.

Tiger could probably score slightly less with Ruffian's book but still better
than the other amateurs(except isichess).

I believe that it is simply a better program than Baron or Ant or nullmover or
zzzz or gnuchess.

These programs are most of the amateurs that compete and you cannot be called
bad amateur when you are better than most of the amateurs.

Uri



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