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Subject: Re: One possible cause of Rybka Weakness in endgames

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 04:52:17 12/09/05

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On December 08, 2005 at 18:27:01, Claude Le Page wrote:

>Sevral posts have noticed that Rybka is rather weak in endgames ,especially
>against Junior : this put me on apossible track : when its position is not
>clearly better , a Juhior engine uses its fastness to complicate  , and Rybka
>must follow at maximum depth ,what is very costly in time : so , in endgame ,
>Rybka is in zeitnot , and analyzes only at depth 13 where thr other is at depth
>17
>The same happens between Junior  and Hiarcs : Their Knowledge slowen hem too
>much in front of engines that use long calculated lines
>The same seem to happen vs  TogaII 1.1a , whose style is similar to Juniors
>Could this be a possible explanation?

I am expecting Rybka to be quite strong in the endgames too soon. I do not think
that who made this program has problems to improve the endgames...it is just a
matter of investing time on it.

Give it a good book and the problems on the endgames will be less as winning
most games before.

Sandro



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