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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