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Subject: Re: Rybka for the PPC?

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 14:48:46 12/05/05

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On December 05, 2005 at 11:29:44, Albert Silver wrote:

>Any chance you could prepare a PPC version of it? I have both CEBoard
>(http://www.zanchetta.net/CEBoard/) and Pocket Grandmaster, and would love to
>use Rybka in them. CEBoard has an integration package on the site explaining how
>to prepare an engine for use with it.
>
>I would gladly share test results comparing it with not only other engines on
>the PPC (Crafty, Fruit 2.1, Toga II 1.1, etc.) but also relative performance
>compared to a desktop PC. My PPC is a Dell Axim X50v running at 624MHz.
>
>                                      Albert
>

Albert,

we're going to make a decision about all non-windows versions in a week or maybe
two. In principle they will exist, we just need to find the right porter and a
way to handle the releases.

Vas

>>>>Thanks for the positions, however my even worse answer is that I am aware of
>>>>this :( You will probably have to wait for Rybka 2.0 sometime next year.
>>>>
>>>>The only bug in this thread that will definitely be fixed for Rybka 1.0 is the
>>>>one given by GCP - a chess engine should be able to mate with KQQ v K :)
>>>>
>>>>Vas
>>>
>>>What is the reason for the problem to fix it?
>>>
>>>I thought that at least underpromotion is easy to fix.
>>>If the problem is some speed reduction you can have default version that does
>>>not consider underpromotions and slightly slower version that considers
>>>underpromotions.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Uri,
>>
>>the problem is programmer time. At some point I had some interesting things in
>>Rybka and decided that I was releasing in December no matter what. Don't worry,
>>the engine will soon be perfect :)
>>
>>Vas



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