Author: Graham Banks
Date: 20:33:49 02/27/06
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On February 27, 2006 at 22:25:44, Ryan B. wrote: >On February 27, 2006 at 21:55:05, Charles Wane wrote: > >>I just got finished playing a four game match at game/30 min between Hiarcs 10 >>and Rykba 13d, Hiarcs had an Athlon64 3200 with 128mb hash, against Rykba >>running on a Pent II 450 with 128mb hash. The score was 2-2 !! Yesterday I >>played about 14 games between rykba running on the same 450 against Deep fritz 8 >>on the Athlon64 and rykba won the majority of the games!! Iv'e never seen a >>program with such inferior hardware play so strong. I actually rated rybka on >>the 450 on chessmaster 10th but letting rybka play the various personalities it >>ended up with a rating of 3055!! And lost only one game , running all on a mere >>Pent II 450. I guess Rybka's case the chess knowledge means much more then the >>speed of the program? I don't know cause I'm not a computer chess expert, but >>all this seems bizarre. > >From what I have seen Rybka has great knowledge but not in the way of >traditional chess knowledge by having a huge evaluation function. Like all >chess engines I expect Rybka to play better on faster hardware but I so far >think the gain of fast hardware is less than most other programs. From what I >see Rybka ranks higher in blitz than long tc games. This is at least the case >on the CEGT rating list. > >Ryan Hi Ryan, the CCRL rating list would suggest otherwise though. http://computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/rating-table-all.shtml Regards, Graham.
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