Author: Albert Silver
Date: 20:42:57 01/13/06
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>I know that about 10,000 people will say "but RYBKA!", so let me preemptively
>answer them: Rybka's strength is tactical, not positional. Take a look at Marc
>Lacrosse's post. I do not say this to derogate Rybka - I don't know what he is
>doing in search, but it must be pretty amazing - but I have never viewed tactics
>as the primary problem in computer chess. As computers get faster, the tactics
>will take care of themselves naturally.
I *completely* disagree. As a chess player of enough ability and understanding
to be able to see the difference of play, I can guarantee you that in spite of
being extremely strong tactically, those tactics cannot possibly explain many of
the things Rybka does differently, such as its maneuvering ability, its
completely new standard of playing and evaluating passed pawns in the middlegame
and endgame, its evaluation of the bishop pair and ability to put them to use,
none of which could be possible due to sharper tactics. I've seen the tactical
monsters play when they dominated the field, and what they did better and most
destructively was quite different. Don't get me wrong though, it most assuredly
IS a tactical beast as well.
>Anyway, I don't really know what the future of computer chess will be, but I do
>know that I personally will probably not be reading CCC much in the future, and
>I guess I'm arrogant enough to make a big post out of it. I'm not leaving out
>of disgust at bad treatment or anything, so I might stop by from time to time
>(perhaps at Torino), but I won't be reading this forum regularly any more.
>
>Good luck to all,
>
>anthony
Well my friend, I'll tell you right out since I like you. I think you're just
pissed at that thread response to your jest. Since if the issue was of post
content, I see Cracraft posting plenty of posts of content, and a couple of
others if you add them up, and Uri is often up for a project with the
understandable condition that someone do it too, and finally nothing is
preventing you from posting the content you'd lke to be reading.
Steve, our local non-PC computer chess specialist started with pretty much no
audience, yet there he went on with his Collector's Corner threads. Now he has
found a few colleagues, created a few new ones (eh Fernando?), and goes on.
Right now the testing has been at an absolute height due to the phenomenal
arrival of two über-programs, Fruit and Rybka, in a very short space of time,
not to mention the offspring of the first, and it is no wonder that we see so
many games and testing. Frenetic reactions for frenetic times.
Peace,
Albert
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