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Subject: Re: My first result: Ruffian 2.0.0 - Shredder 7.04 0 - 4 also !!

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 08:57:46 12/23/03

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On December 23, 2003 at 04:32:43, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On December 23, 2003 at 04:00:35, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>On December 23, 2003 at 02:04:56, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>(I see same result below yes.) Not a dream start - it indicates after only 4
>>>games, that Ruffian 99% sure is not at S7.04 level. It was start of Nunn match
>>>ans R2 start to play better with total result 9 - 11. Same match againt Fritz8
>>>8,5-11,5.
>>>These are good result and indicate, that Ruffian is may be 50 points improved,
>>>which I consider enough to buy it!
>>>At least one thing is sure: Ruffian is yhe strongest program in the world
>>>WITHOUT copy protection (I am not sure about Lokasoft engines).
>>
>>Don't forget to claim that it is the strongest engine in the world that starts
>>with an R and ends with uffian.
>
>Seriously, Tony. I doubt that there is another wb-engine which could do better
>against Shredder.

I doubt that too. Certainly not XiniX. It has all zeros against Shredder ( in
tournements ). Against Fritz or King it has an occasional half point, against
Tiger some good positions without any decent finishing. But nothing against
Shredder.

>
>The claim Ruffian to be the strongest wb-engine seems quite reasonable to me.

To me too.

>Perhaps Bruce's private monster is the most serious candidate to throw doubts on
>this. But Ferret isn't available; so we don't have too many results.
>
>Admittedly, it's a bit of an offensive style of advertising.

That was what I was joking about.

Have nice days,

Tony

>But doubtlessly, Perola has done an excellent job.
>
>Looking to the results published by Pablo in another post here
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?337781
>
>which is
>PABLO-ILFE1CXZX, Blitz:9'+3  2003
>
>                   123456789012345678901234
>1   Shredder 7.04  00011½0½½1111110½0½11111 15.5/24
>2   Ruffian 2.0.0  11100½1½½0000001½1½00000  8.5/24
>
>nicely demonstrates how unreliable a result of a 4-game match is. Fluctuations
>are just too big to make conclusions.
>
>Have nice holidays,
>Uli
>
>
>>
>>Tony
>>
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>PS. Season greetings to all here



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