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

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 20:06:45 12/23/05

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On December 22, 2005 at 12:56:24, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>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


Thanks for clarifying.  Here is the quote from your post that led to the
misunderstanding:

 "So he gets that search, adds some to it..."

-Peter



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