Author: Albert Silver
Date: 19:33:09 01/14/06
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On January 14, 2006 at 22:25:40, stuart taylor wrote:
>On January 14, 2006 at 22:11:01, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On January 14, 2006 at 21:50:14, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>I had been under the impression that Rybka's main strength was positional, and
>>>that others came no where near it. I thought I had heard it was tactically good
>>>too.
>>>But thanks for letting me know it was purely tactical. I had been under the
>>>impression for some reason that the ice was beginning to be broken from the
>>>stagnation of some of chess computing weaknesses.
>>>So there is still way to go, and Rybka might yet be succeeded by about another
>>>200 elo, by positional improvement alone!
>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>He's wrong.
>>
>> Albert
>
>I thought Zappa was himself a great expert and programmer.
>S.Taylor
He is undoubtedly a great programmer, but I seem to recall he described his
chess playing ability as something very modest. Less than 1800.
Albert
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