Author: Ross Boyd
Date: 12:54:27 12/05/05
Thats a +660 landslide for Rybka. Wow! What impressed me most about Rybka was its exquisite piece play. It gets its pieces onto the most effective squares. It coordinates its pieces around passed pawns extremely accurately. It controls space beautifully. There were a few games where TRACE managed to get a 2 pawn advantage but Rybka would slowly but surely overpower her with sheer positional and tactical accuracy. Weaknesses? The game that Rybka only drew ended in a KPK endgame. Rybka's eval was a bit optimistic (+0.35) for a completely drawn K and h pawn ending. The 'weaknesses' are trivial for Rajik to fix. Other observations: Rybka has a very sophisticated piece mobility function. And I suspect Rybka has pin detection in its static eval. It plays very humanly with its ability to 'pin and kill' pieces. Fantastic! Just my 2c, Ross
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