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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