Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 15:51:18 01/20/06
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On January 20, 2006 at 14:29:17, Albert Silver wrote: >On January 20, 2006 at 13:14:48, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >>On January 20, 2006 at 08:22:05, Franz Hagra wrote: >> >>>The only serious source of computerchess "BRR offline" says that Rybka is only a >>>beta project and so there is no need to test such an engine for rating lists at >>>all! >>> >>>Rybka is only a BETA and not proofed by BRR offline! >>> >>>LOL >>>Hagra >> >>Well, I do not care about computerchess sources at all! Most of the time I know >>more... >> >>If you download the Rybka engine you will see that actually it is the strongest >>without any doubt...beta or not is it an engine. >> >>The point is that things are going to move very quicky in the next months so >>what may be sure today may not quite soon. >>Today there are no doubts! >> >>Sandro > >After some relative 2-3 years of relative stagnation, the last months have been >quite exciting, with the advent of not only Fruit and of course Rybka, but also >a much improved Fritz 9 and even more amazing Hiarcs 10. I think it may be as >strong as Fruit 2.2 now using the plain Hypermodern setting. That's an enormous >leap forward from Hiarcs 9, especially as I recall the general belief that it >would only catch up with Shredder, but not surpass it. And of course the future >is even rosier with Fruit and Shredder on the building blocks, and of course the >still improving Rybka. Well, Ribka showed that there are some mistakes in the programs algorithms and that improving those it is possible to achive quite high strenght increase. Of course one knows how to do it and a program may needs to be modified heavily. > >And not to mention the clash of the veteran bookmakers, you and Noomen. ;-) well, as you know I was the one bringing the attention of the importance of a dedicated book back in 1987. We missed the win in that WCCC even if playing with a much slower hardware and a 8 bit program by bad luck as we lost a won game against Mephisto in a won position. During the switch from one depth to another the program played one of the very few loosing moves... if a program is quite stronger than another there is not much a book can do, but the fight is getting more and more interesting...:-) Sandro > > Albert
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