Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 02:40:42 12/24/05
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On December 24, 2005 at 04:24:20, Heinz van Kempen wrote: >>The endgame knowledge in Rybka is very good. The claim of no endgame knowledge >>was just easier than explaining the distance to mate bug. I think fixing the >>bug will help some but not as much as people think. >> >>Ryan > >Hi Ryan, > >my impression from watching games is also that the endgame knowledge is already >good. So I am basing on the claim by Vasik that here many things have to be >improved still. > >About improvement I do not have a concrete guess, I only start to ask myself >generally where the limits are. ELO 3200? No limit at all? > >Best Regards >Heinz Rybka 1.0 doesn't have any special endgame heuristics. This can be easily fixed. If I had to make an ELO guess, I'd go with something like 50. A tougher problem for me is endgame search. I'm a little afraid that my approach to searching doesn't really translate to endgames and that Rybka will always be outsearched there a bit. This is a project for a later time. Vas
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