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Subject: Re: I will not buy Zappa and Sjeng

Author: Shaley

Date: 02:27:52 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 05:14:15, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On September 06, 2005 at 04:43:14, Shaley wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2005 at 04:22:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>Note that I did not buy deep sjeng but the main reason is that it is not strong
>>>enough and I also did not buy some other commercial programs like ktulu and
>>>Ruffian.
>>>Uri
>>
>>Ruffian is not that bad, especially Ruffian 2.1.0. It's a very good
>>positional-based chess engine. Sometimes it even produces more sound solutions
>>compared to Shredder.
>>Regards,
>>
>>Alexander
>
>
>One cannot waste precious lifetime for a "sometimes". You live only once. But
>ok, most of all live as if they wanted to die tomorrow or next month,
>considering drugs etc. Most of the time going commercial means the author has
>come to the end of his creativity and now he wants to make easy money. If that
>doesn't work then it's over.

Okay, I've got your irony. You want chess engines to play in a sound manner all
the time, but it's hardly possible. Whichever engine you take, it doesn't play
well permanently, only once in a while. It's a human who evaluates its play and
as an OTB player I don't always sing praises to anyone of them. Sometimes they
do well, sometimes they tread on the wrong track. There's a limited number of
engines a human player can sometimes trust, Ruffian being one of them.



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