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Subject: Re: Interview with Vasik Rajlich (The Fruit of The Rybka)

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 21:37:45 12/20/05

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On December 20, 2005 at 16:30:11, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>On December 20, 2005 at 15:17:25, Alex Schmidt wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Vasik Rajlich kindly agreed to give us an interview:
>>
>>http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engines/Rybka/vriv/vriv.html
>>
>>Thank you Vasik,
>>Alex
>
>Good interview. Nice to attach a face and a personality with the program's
>author. I wish they had gone into his formal studies more. He studied at MIT?
>Anybody have some detail about that?
>
>The comment about his having learned much, in regards to search, from Fruit,
>is a great clue. So he gets that search, adds some to it, then tacks on
>a monster evaluation for middle-game stuff, and voila, Rybka.
>

Stuart,

I get the impression that you think Vasik took Fruit's search code, made a few
tweaks, and dropped it right into Rybka.  That's not at all how I interpreted
his comments.

You do realize that he's been working on Rybka for almost 3 years, right?

-Peter



>Although I have the source code for Fruit 2.1, the thought of going through
>any other person's program is really anathema to me nowadays. I get a feeling
>it will "taint" me. And of course, that just taint so.
>
>So what is so special about Fruit 2.1's search? Anyone analyzed it care to
>comment?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stuart



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