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Subject: Re: Stunning

Author: William Penn

Date: 19:01:46 12/06/05

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On December 06, 2005 at 20:35:50, Albert Silver wrote:

>On December 06, 2005 at 20:26:39, Thomas Logan wrote:
>
>>http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/cegt/rating-table-all-shifted-hidden.shtml
>>
>>Check out Rybka rating
>>
>>Tom
>
>Note that there are only 24 games there.
>
>                      Albert

And it's a bare chart without any explanations. All of the column headers need
to be defined & explained in plain English words which we can all understand. If
they don't want to do this on the same webpage, then they should include some
footnotes and/or links to the webpages which have the explanations.

Several other questions arise too... It's the Rybka 64 bit version, so is it
being run on 64 bit or 32 bit computers? Why aren't they testing the 32 bit
version? What opening books are being used? Exactly how can we fairly compare
all of these different engines run on different kinds of computers - some dual
processors, some 32 bit, some 64 bit, etc.?

Also Rybka is still a beta. When it's formally released as a full version (not a
beta) and retested then we will know better how it stands. Certainly it looks
promising at this point. I'm trying to test it privately too.

It's a big task trying to assimilate all the new top chess engine titles and
versions in the last 1-2 months. If they release a commercial version of Rybka
soon, as has been mentioned, how can I justify buying another engine so soon? I
just bought Fruit 2.2.1 recently which apparently only lasted about one month at
the top of the heap. Perhaps another engine will dethrone Rybka a month from
now. So I'm astounded at recent developments but also perplexed how they relate
to me!?
WP



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