Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 00:52:29 12/31/05
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On December 30, 2005 at 20:29:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 30, 2005 at 19:16:07, Ernest Bonnem wrote: > >>Who can give an answer? >>Vas? >>Ernst? >>anybody else knows? > >I think that it is trivial. > >It is dangerous to play with an untested version. > > >Rybka beta was tested heavily by the CEGT team and other people. >Rybka Preview is a new version and still was not tested enough. > This was exacly the reason why Vasik choose to pplay with the beta version. >A more interesting question is why the opponents resigned against rybka and did >not continue until mate because it is known that rybka has a bug that may cause >it problems to win won positions because it does not care about distance to >mate. > Let me say that the reason why others didn't want to try Rybka's mating capabilities has everything to do with the friendly atmosphere in wich the tournament took place. >The bug was no problem in CEGT because the interface adjudicates the result >based on evaluations but it could be a problem in real games. > >Uri Ernst.
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