Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 09:56:24 12/22/05
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On December 21, 2005 at 00:37:45, Peter Kappler wrote: >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 > Peter, I am not pointing an accusatory finger by any means. 3 years seems pretty short for such an achievement. However, he DID credit the search code, highly, in the interview, and I LAUDED him for that. Please re-read my comments more carefully. Certainly no one just takes a large section of code, with massive dependencies, from any one program and plops it in another. That doesn't happen. I'm not naive enough to think anyone does that let alone the programmer of a hot new program. Stuart
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