Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 00:24:15 12/25/05
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On December 25, 2005 at 02:38:32, Terry McCracken wrote: > >It also works well under my Shredder 8 GUI, it's very easy to setup an UCI >engine. Man it's one mean engine! I honestly feel this engine plays more like a >human master than anything I've ever seen, and that is very important to >experienced players, who need that "human" feel from a game. > I'm in 100% agreement --- claerly has the master human feel for the game like no other engine. >IMO in the middlegame, Rybka passes the Turing Test, and will in the future buy >this engine, as it has broken new ground, were in another revolution in computer >chess. Again,I'm in 100% agreement - IMO, this is just as big, if not bigger than when Fran Moresch implemented his null move approach into Fritz during 1991/1992. From Ed Schröder's webpage http://members.home.nl/matador/chess840.htm#NULLMOVE " I first heard of Null-Move in 1986 during the World Championship in Cologne, Germany. Don Beal was participating with his chess program that used a Null-Move technique in his Quiescent Search, the seed of a major breakthrough in computer chess was sowed. During the tournament Frans Morsch (FRITZ) kept on talking about Null-Move to me, "Ed, there must be something real good in Null-Move, I am going to research this". I didn't pay attention and shrugged, Null-Move, no way. But then in 1991/92 Frans Morsch implemented Null-Move is his Fritz in a new way and Null-Move became a big success as it was a very powerful and easy way of doing selective search, no more tricky static evaluation tricks, but the relative safe search based R=2 approach, easy, clean and powerful. Then Frans leaked his Null-Move approach to Chrilly Donninger the author of NIMZO who wrote an article in the ICCA journal and Null-Move became public. Nowadays I can't mention a chess program that doesn't use Null-Move, the chess programmer community owes Frans Morsch a big thanks" > >Terry
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