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Subject: Re: Ruffian 2.0 will include a linux version too!

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 06:16:21 11/21/03

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On November 21, 2003 at 09:13:48, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On November 21, 2003 at 07:18:36, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>If you are tired of such strong opponents for Gothmog on your Linux machine, why
>>don't you get (freely downloadable) Gromit 2.20 (pretty strong but weaker than
>>Crafty, Yace, Pepito or Deep Sjeng and Ruffian - both commercial now -), or,
>>even better, as you wish a bit weaker engine, get Fortress or Cilian for Linux.
>>Both latter are intellegent but beatable programs. If you can't find them on the
>>net, please feel free to email me and I'll send them over :-).
>>
>>On second thought you might as well get Beowulf, or Colchess for Linux ... Or
>>GK... or...
>
>Gothmog has no chance whatsoever against Beowulf.  I have never seen Gromit in
>action, but I'm afraid it would also be too strong.
>
>I wasn't aware that the other engines mentioned were available for Linux.
>Thank you very much for the suggestions!  I will certainly check them out.
>
>Tord

Maybe Faile (http://faile.sourceforge.net/) would be something? I think it is
somewhere between TSCP and GNUchess.

Sargon



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