Re: What was the top Chess engine before it was Stockfish, Komodo or Houdini?
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:39 am
I remember when Ruffian appeared in the Leo Dijksman tournaments.
For me (and I think for everyone in general) it was an "impact", he won his tournament very easily, something that had not happened before, at least that's how I experienced it. If I remember correctly, the version of Ruffian was 0.7.6 (or something like that), it was a private version that I think some beta testers had but it was not made public, which I regretted because I've always been a Ruffian fan. .
Until then most of the engines had a progression (no very strong engines appeared out of nowhere) and that's why, as I say, for me, it was a shocking appearance, since that first version that I saw in the Leo Dijksman tournament was very very strong.
Nowadays, with all the sources that are available to see, the strange thing is to see a new engine that does not have a very high level or that improves little by little, but at that time (before Rybka appeared) it was not normal to see this.
For me (and I think for everyone in general) it was an "impact", he won his tournament very easily, something that had not happened before, at least that's how I experienced it. If I remember correctly, the version of Ruffian was 0.7.6 (or something like that), it was a private version that I think some beta testers had but it was not made public, which I regretted because I've always been a Ruffian fan. .
Until then most of the engines had a progression (no very strong engines appeared out of nowhere) and that's why, as I say, for me, it was a shocking appearance, since that first version that I saw in the Leo Dijksman tournament was very very strong.
Nowadays, with all the sources that are available to see, the strange thing is to see a new engine that does not have a very high level or that improves little by little, but at that time (before Rybka appeared) it was not normal to see this.