Author: Albert Silver
Date: 21:49:25 02/13/06
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On February 13, 2006 at 21:56:16, Uri Blass wrote:
>On February 13, 2006 at 21:49:11, Ryan B. wrote:
>
>>On February 13, 2006 at 17:51:12, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>>>>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
>>
>>
>>You clearly have little to no understanding of my posts here. I do not complain
>>about what Vas does or does not chose to share here and I only have stated the
>>obvious regarding this and have even clarified that Vas has not does wrong in
>>this area. Maybe you, Vas, and most other people here feel I contributed
>>nothing to the computer chess community here with my ideas regarding center pawn
>>structure, passed pawns, or what I shared with gambit fruit. Fine, I will just
>>stop posting here if I have not been a positive contributer. My computer chess
>>hobby will continue though.
>>
>>Ryan
>
>Albert Silver replied enrico carrisco so I think that he did not talk about you
>but about enrico carrisco when he wrote:"You have to do the first step"
>
>Uri
Yes, that is correct.
Albert
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