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Subject: Re: SSDF Rating List 2004-02-25

Author: Volker Pittlik

Date: 13:18:37 02/27/04

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On February 27, 2004 at 14:23:07, Uri Blass wrote:

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>
>This is not the question.

Sorry that was the question. I tried to give an answer.

>It seems clear that ruffian is not so strong as Frank announced but...

It seems we agree here.

>
>The question is if the reason that it is not as strong as Frank announced is
>some problem with pondering or for different reason.

I don't know if there are any problems with pondering in Ruffian or if there are
any other problems in related software (for example Arena) which may have an
influence on Ruffian's performance. Therefore I didn't speculate about the
possible reasons for this possibly existing or not existing problems.

>
>It is possible that a program may be 100 elo better than previous version with
>ponder off or at x minutes/40 moves and not stronger with ponder on or at x
>minutes per game(the way sarah tested it).
>The question is if that is the case with Ruffian.

Possibly yes, possibly no. I didn't make any statements about errors to find or
not to find in Ruffian. I made a statement about the most supposable reason for
Ruffian's result in the SSDF list - not more or less.

Volker



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