Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 04:04:09 12/31/05
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On December 30, 2005 at 20:29:18, Roger D Davis wrote: >I haven't made an official tally, but it seems that in every report I >see...Rybka mutiliates the latest Hiarcs, even more than other engines at the >same level as Hiarcs. > >Yet, Hiarcs wasn't available to be tuned against...the latest version hadn't >been released yet... > >How can Rybka be so effective against an engine it was never tuned against? > >Roger I think Rybka uses some new techniques that the others don't have which gives it a big boost. Maybe something as revolutionary for chess programming like e.g null-move was, speculations are welcome. :) Additionally it has a good eval and that gives it a great attacking style. It doesn't wait for things to happend but rather acts itself. E.g. Paderborn round 6 vs Gandalf, 10. g4!. regards Andy
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