Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Ruffian on Linux/OS X

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 23:54:26 03/15/04

Go up one level in this thread


On March 16, 2004 at 00:55:16, margolies,marc wrote:

>there is no nexus between cb and ruffian that i am aware of, so i think that you
>misunderstood something. while it is possible to use the uci or winboard form of
>ruffian 2 inside of cb, this engine is published by another company.
>
>regarding core of your question, the linux/osx engine of ruffian2 is a 'bonus
>engine' for the win distribution. i might infer that it is not supported as an
>indivuduated commercial product. but you might ask the ruffian publisher--
>www.lokasoft.nl he has a forum there but he is also kind enough to post here.
>regards-marc

Thats right the linux/osx comes as bonus but its unsupported. More info
here: http://www.lokasoft.nl/ruffian.htm

Lex

>
>
>On March 16, 2004 at 00:34:53, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>
>>Anyone know if Ruffian is avaible for these systems at a lower rate (just for
>>the engine).
>>
>>Reason I ask, is I know Chessbase is a commericial product and the CB package
>>seems to come with the Ruffian CD. Wouldn't it be nice if you could buy the
>>engine cheaper w/o the CB package since you can't use it anyway on Linux/OS X?
>>
>>I might be mistaken if so, I'll gladly stand corrected.
>>
>>-JS



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.