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Subject: Re: Ruffian versions - my FINAL conclusion

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:09:49 02/29/04

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On February 29, 2004 at 08:37:57, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On February 29, 2004 at 06:58:20, Sedat wrote:
>
>>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!
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>-------------------------------
>>
>> - In my opinion  Ruffian 2.0.0 is professional product,
>> - Ruffian 2.0.0 plays(in blitz)at strenght as Hiarcs 9,Deep Fritz 8,TheKing323
>> -In my Ratinlist Ruffian 2.0.0 scores 59 points better than Ruffian 1.0.5
>>
>>Please check the results at this url:
>>
>>http://www.geocities.com/sedatchess/rating_all_4m_2s.html
>>
>>Sedat
>
>
>Have you tested Ruffian 2.0.0 versus Fritz 5.32 yet , or you want me to post it
>here? I have not posted it yet because of its poor performance against Fritz
>5.32. But the only setback is the Fritz 5.32 was using Shredder8.ctg, therefore,
>the result is invalid :-)
>
>Jorge

It means that Fritz5.32 was handicapped by a book that is clearly not tuned to
hide Fritz's weaknesses.

I bet that kasparov will perform worse if you tell him to use the book moves
that karpov plays and it means that if you get bad results for Ruffian then your
results are even more surprising.

Uri



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