Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:22:50 12/18/05
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On December 17, 2005 at 23:55:01, Uri Blass wrote:
>On December 17, 2005 at 18:48:15, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Inspired by Pablo Restrepo I have begun a series of experiments in order to see
>>if the heuristic of top chess engines are afected by the lack of some pieces.
>>In my first serie of experiments, I left Rybka without nothing but the King and
>>his pawns. I, of course, kept all the pieces.
>
>Not his pawns but her pawns
>I could write it's pawns but I decided to follow post of albert silver and treat
>rybka as a female.
>
>Source
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?470829
Bear in mind it wasn't my idea. I said "very interesting" because the author
identified the program's gender, not I.
>Note that Rybka is also a possible name for females in israel.
>It is spelled rivka but in hebrew both v and b have the same letter bet,
>so if I translate rybka and rivka to hebrew, I am going to get the same letters
>in hebrew and in order to be sure that you understand how to say some name you
>may need in some cases punctuation marks(for example Uri and Ori are spelled the
>same in hebrew and both are name of males).
Iri, I'm deeply relieved to know that no matter how badly I misspell your name,
you'll still be a male.
>the difference between rybka and rivka in punctuation marks is that in hebrew
>rybka include "." inside of the bet of it, but usually people write in hebrew
>without punctuation marks for the letters and expect other people to understand
>because there is only one known word with the same punctuation marks that is
>related to it.
So Ari if I write Rivka, you'll still understand I mean R.y.b.k.a ?
>Note that punctuation marks like "," or "." not inside of a letter that are
>related to sentences are used in hebrew in similiar way that they are used in
>english.
It is possible Eri that they teach punctuation better there as a result of this,
since you not only have puncutation inside the sentences but inside the letters
as well. I often wonder about the education of some of the posters who think
punctuation is confusing, and prefer instead to ignore it altogether.
Let me get back to Rybka, she is waiting for me.
Albert
>
>Uri
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