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Subject: Re: Rybka future

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 07:52:18 12/29/05

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On December 29, 2005 at 07:39:05, Joseph Tadeusz wrote:

>On December 29, 2005 at 03:30:49, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On December 28, 2005 at 21:13:25, Gustavo Bedoya wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all
>>>I'm rather new here , and I know that Rybka is the
>>>outstanding engine nowadays.
>>>But Surprisingly I've read it lost a game with an (excuse me if I'm
>>>wrong)inferior engine. I read that Rybka is not playing with full strngth
>>>because if so, it would be so easy for Rybka.
>>>I ask all the experts in this Topics if Rybka is really the strongest engine of
>>>all time, an how can be so stronger than others, what is different in its source
>>>code that makes it so lethal,( in my modest engine matches games, Rybka crushes
>>>every engine one after one, excepting Fritz9 in the ChessBase interface +5=2-5).
>>>And in the future it can be cloned and there will be stronger engines every
>>>year, even every mounth?
>>>I'll be happy with all your opinions
>>>Best Regards
>>
>>1. To be out of range for an occasionally loss against other programs,
>>you must be >= ~750 rating points better. This means even strong Rybka
>>can lose occasionally against around 100 different programs and Spike
>>is surely one of the best in that field.
>>
>>2. No source is published, thus how should it be 'cloned'?
>>
>>Guenther
>
>Rybka can be reverse engineered, especially with the splendid REC decompiler.

It is forbidden by law and moreover not what the original poster
had in mind when asking his questions ;-)
However everyone here probably knows about reverse engineering...

Guenther



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