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Subject: Re: I nominate Rybka for a Computer Chess Grammy!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 19:59:41 12/11/05

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On December 11, 2005 at 22:00:35, Sherry Windsor wrote:

>On December 11, 2005 at 21:50:34, Roger Brown wrote:
>
>>On December 11, 2005 at 20:14:42, Sherry Windsor wrote:
>>
>>>For strongest program
>>>Best Programmer
>>>My generous
>>>One with the most new ideals
>>
>>
>>
>>Hello Sherry,
>>
>>How are you able to assess the "most new ideas"?
>>
>>No-one has Rybka's source code...
>>
>>Ditto for best programmer.  That though might depend on whether Rybka demolishes
>>all before it.  Which leads to my next point.
>>
>>As for strongest program...you may very well be right but I am going to sit back
>>and wait.  I am old enough to have seen this type of fever before.
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Later.
>
>
>No there has never been any other program that has completely demolished the
>field like rykba, rybka is not first among equals, it's more like first among
>unequals

The 32 bit version is only 31 elo higher than Fritz9
The 64 bit version is 62 elo better than Fritz9

http://kd.lab.nig.ac.jp/chess/cegt/rating-table-all-shifted-hidden.shtml

Gambit fruit was not tested enough so we do not know if it is worse.

I do not think that it completely demolish the field.
It is probably better than others(except maybe gambit fruit at long time
control) but things may be changed tomorrow when Fabien release a new fruit.

Uri



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