Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 12:08:05 12/09/05
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On December 08, 2005 at 08:12:41, gerold daniels wrote: >On December 08, 2005 at 05:39:08, Vasik Rajlich wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I appreciate the great feedback from the testers. Rybka played over 5,000 games >>in my testing, but under very limited conditions, and many new things have >>popped up after the Beta release. Here is a list of major known problems with >>comments: >> >>1) Mating problems - essentially fixed (in full release). Rybka still won't >>always play the very fastest mate but will be _much_ more efficient. A really >>full solution requires even hash table changes and will be available as a patch >>to the first release. >> >>2) Displaying mate lengths - will be available as a patch to the first release. >> >>3) Displaying mate variations in analysis mode - fixed. >> >>4) Displaying multiple variations in analysis mode - fixed. >> >>5) 50 move repetition problems - fixed. >> >>6) Support for full UCI protocol - fixed. >> >>7) Underpromotions - will be fixed as a post-release patch. >> >>8) Crashing & hanging problems - some fixed, some being fixed. Obviously the >>highest priority at this point. >> >>9) EGTB support - added. >> >>10) Endgame knowledge - this is for Rybka 2.0. It should not be hard in >>principle, in fact I expect it to be easier than middlegame knowledge. There >>just wasn't time. I do apologize to the endgame lovers out there :) >> >>11) NPS - please don't worry about this number. Rybka uses the same CPU cycles >>as everyone else. Search is a very weird and complicated thing, every engine is >>searching 99.9% nonsense anyway. >> >>Again, I appreciate all of the great feedback and look forward to being ready >>with a stable 1.0 in a few days. >> >>Best regards, >>Vas > >Hello Vas. Thanks for your fine program. How do you plan to distribute >Rybka 2.0 ? Will it be on cd ? Thanks. > >Good luck, > >Gerold. Actually we're a bit more worried about 1.0. There will be a number of ways you can get it but the easiest will be download from shareit. Vas
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