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Subject: Re: Rybka comes from anothe planet...

Author: Jan Kiwitter

Date: 03:38:17 12/30/05

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On December 30, 2005 at 06:32:43, Austin A. Biberink wrote:

>On December 30, 2005 at 06:09:46, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>Rybka has a mind of its own.  She is way above us mortals.
>
>For sure. But what is unique about Rybka? My impressions are:
>
>* Pawns are like electrons: Energy, but not material :)
>* The advantage of the bishop pair is evaluated higher than usual.
>* With black, it's typical that Rybka will give a pawn early, to fight for the
>initiative... or just to imbalance the position.

Good points! I am tester of Ktulu and I told the programmer he should look at
how Rybka evaluates the pair of bishops - I think the high evaluation of the
pair of bishops is responsible for many wins of Rybka.

Best regards
Jan



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