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Subject: Re: Is Movei even a Master?

Author: Daniel Jackson

Date: 00:19:22 07/10/04

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On July 10, 2004 at 02:44:47, Johan Havegheer wrote:

>On July 10, 2004 at 02:37:22, Daniel Jackson wrote:
>
>>On July 10, 2004 at 01:47:49, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>this is not fair. movei is a good program. no matter how strong it is. not the
>>>LEVEL is important, but the ideas and way it plays and computes.
>>>
>>>any chess program began from LOW playing strength. i remember when JUNIOR
>>>started at championships.
>>
>>Not to belittle Movie, now or Junior years ago, how did Ruffian start so strong
>>from the first release?
>
>Not really, Ruffian was private long before releasing and played a lot on ICC
>before.. It has a Elo on ICC of 2240 at the beginning. No one was talking about
>this engine... Until Ruffian 0.96 was participating in Leo's WBEC and performed
>amazingly GOOD.
>
>Best

I'm sure it must have gone through the trials before its release, I was just
teasing Thorsten a little;-)

No offence to Ruffians author, intended either. I'd say congratulations,
surprising so many here at CCC!:o)

Daniel



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