Author: William Stone
Date: 04:54:31 12/30/05
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On December 30, 2005 at 07:41:18, Arshad Syed wrote: >It must be a year since I last visited computer chess forums. Ruffian was the >only amateur program that could really stand up to the professional programs, >other than the usual Crafty. Now it is amazing to see the progress made by >Fruit, Zappa and Rybka, which have left Ruffian in the wayside. This is going to >make life difficult for the professional programmers! I believe the authors of both Fruit and Rybka sell their programs. Does this not make them professional too? I understand the author of Zappa also planned to go commercial. Regards William Also, Rybka's success at >Paderborn was on a single CPU, playing against quads!! > >Congrats Rybka!! > >On a side note, Rybka's author did mention that he borrowed ideas from Crafty, >Fruit etc. How do you distinguish between just borrowing ideas and tweaking a >few lines of the evaluation as in some other programs? Is there anyway to >dissemble the source code? I am just concerned that we could possibly have a >plethora of tweaked Crafty/Fruit programs turning up at tournaments. > >Regards, >Arshad
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