Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 03:23:36 11/21/03
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On November 21, 2003 at 03:38:24, Chessfun wrote: >On November 20, 2003 at 19:14:15, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Ruffian 2.0 by Per-Ola Valfridsson (Sweden) is the strongest Winboard compatible >>engine in the world today. The freely available and downloadable version of >>Ruffian (ver. 1.0.5) is placed first on the Winboard Engines Rating List. Its >>successor, coming more than one year later, with improved features and much >>higher playing strength, compared with 1.0.5. >>Ruffian 2.0 is not only capable of holding his own against the strongest >>commercial chess programs in the world, but also able to compete successfully >>against any of them. >> >>WB I / II & UCI protocol support >> >>Linux engine included >> >>11 playing levels, interesting settings! >> >>Opening books by Prof. Dr. Djordje Vidanovic !! >> >>Our Chess GUI Arena 1.0 by Martin Blume !! >> >>Ruffian 2.0 is a much improved engine that is considerably stronger than version >>1.0.1 / 1.0.5. More chess knowledge has been added and many other areas have >>been enhanced and improved. Piece mobility has been completely rewritten and the >>new version has a more active positional playing style. >>The engine is written in portable ANSI C and has been tested on a number of >>platforms such as Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Solaris, Pocket PC and PalmOS. >> >>Ruffian is a fast program that reaches high search depth very quickly, and this >>gives it excellent tactical abilities. Extensions, pruning and evaluation have >>been carefully tuned to maximize Ruffian's playing strength. Mobility is based >>on precalculated tables that can recognize special patterns; this is one of the >>major evaluation terms. Ruffian has a lot of endgame knowledge and can play >>endgames fairly well. With the combination of endgame tables, Ruffian knows when >>to convert to a winning endgame. Search is based on iterative deepening, >>principal variation search algorithm (PVS), extension, SEE, transposition >>tables, recursive null-move and forward pruning. > >Hmm, wonder who we should thank for taking it commercial. > >Sarah. Hi Sarah, the best solution for us is to have all for free. I know this, we make it! Ruffian 1.05 / Arena 1.0 for an example! Best Frank
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