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Subject: Re: How times have changed within a year!!

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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