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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