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Subject: Re: Ruffian versions - my FINAL conclusion

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 02:24:16 02/29/04

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On February 29, 2004 at 04:17:05, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I think we can safely remove Ruffian from PRO engines, because there is now 4
>(!) versions after free 1.0.5, but it's unclear if ANY is better. This is not
>professional product!

Afaik, some bug-fixes are involved, too.
I would rather call this a good service, when customers can get their
bug-reports so quickly handled.

Regarding playing strength, perhaps it was a bad idea to release an engine as
strong a Ruffian 1.x as freeware. It's clear that it's very hard to further
improve. Anyway, it's strong enough.

Uli

>
>Jouni



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