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

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 21:31:16 12/23/05

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On December 23, 2005 at 23:06:45, Peter Kappler wrote:

>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

Ah, I see. Well, I should have said "For example" in front of it...
but perhaps that would have been deemed rude worldwide (or just in Europe).

:-)

Greetings,

Stuart




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