Author: Albert Silver
Date: 14:51:12 02/13/06
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>>>>You will find many technical posts of mine on this forum and in the archives. If
>>>>you want more technical discussions here, start contributing.
>>>>
>>>>Vas
>>>
>>>Most of your "many technical posts" were before Rybka's huge 800+ ELO jump (in
>>>roughly 1.5 years), i.e. post-CCT6 (Feb. 2004) where Rybka ranked 49th place.
>>>
>>>http://www.vrichey.de/cct6/index_table.htm
>>>
>>>But I'm surprised you jumped on this thread as the head-turning approach seems
>>>to be your modus operandi concerning recent "technical" threads concerning Rybka
>>>and its very unique behavior.
>>
>>Don't take this wrong, but I can't recall when I saw technical threads
>>discussing the unique behaviour of Hiarcs. At best, I've seen comments as to its
>>very selective search, or intelligent hueristics. In other words, nothing more
>>than what the web site says.
>>
>> Albert
>
>If someone posted an analysis clip where Hiarcs was reducing its total node
>count at a certain ply, I would respond to their question.
>
>If someone asked specifics about our king safety our pruning, I would be unable
>to directly respond to their question.
>
>It's odd that I'm getting more replies from Rybka Fan Club members than Vasik
>himself. Please don't feel the need for "attack mode" or "defense", I only
>asked a simple question for the _author_ to answer.
>
>Regards,
>
>-elc.
It really wasn't meant as attack or defense, and I didn't realize you were
specifically referring to the node count issue. I read it as another
semi-complaint in the vein of Ryan on how Vasik does things. I found it odd that
Vasik would be expected to share the secrets of his success, when other
commercial programmers do not. At least I never saw SMK, Uniacke, or Morsh do so
here or elsewhere, hence my comment.
My general philosophy on such matters (and not specifically about CC of course),
is that if one wants or expects someone to do something, then one must be
willing to do the same, and first. In other words, you can't claim that if
someone did that, you'd follow suit. You have to do the first step.
Clearly you were talking about something else though, so it is of no
consequence. This is just to clarify my previous post.
Albert
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