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Subject: Re: Interview with Vasik Rajlich

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 13:20:13 12/22/05

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On December 21, 2005 at 05:07:19, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>On December 20, 2005 at 16:02:53, enrico carrisco 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
>>
>>Very interesting interview.  As far as the question & answer below, I can say
>>that HIARCS shouldn't be listed as benefiting from Fruit 2.1's open source code,
>>however.  Clearly, less developed engines and amateurs will benefit from such
>>code more than long-term and highly developed projects.
>>
>>It's also been much of a mutual agreement (my own "basic" analysis of the code
>>in agreement) that aside from Fabien's approach to history pruning, no
>>"breakthrough" ideas appeared in Fruit 2.1's code and that its wonderful play
>>and strength was largely due to how eloquently all its different functions were
>>harmonized.
>>
>>Additionally, you cannot "transplant" an idea (style or approach) of one chess
>>program (search, evaluation, etc.) to another program that has already
>>incorporated a much different set of ideas.  It would take more time and effort
>>to have apples and oranges working together efficiently than it would be worth.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>-elc.
>>
>>
>
>For some reason we have trouble in computer chess talking about this. Can you
>imagine Anand saying that he learns nothing from Kasparov and has no interest in
>his ideas?
>

And that is one reason why Kasparov impresses me because he writes
the multi-volume work on his great predecessors.

That kind of grattitude and non-arrogance has been, traditionally, rare
in the world of high-ego international politics and national pride-on-the-line
chess.

Stuart



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