Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 06:23:54 01/02/06
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On January 02, 2006 at 05:48:31, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 01, 2006 at 12:41:55, Keith Hyams wrote: > >>On January 01, 2006 at 06:29:00, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >> >>>Yace is reputed to be an excellent endgame engine and indeed beat a better >>>engine (anmon) solidly (+6 after 40 games) in the endgame test >>> >>>yace is about 300 points weaker than rybka, so i thought it would be a great to >>>see if it could upset this top engine. Well , yace made a pretty good contest >>>of it, but lost in the end. Yace had 9 wins, 14 losses, and 17 draws (40 min >>>with 4 sec increment). Yace played much better than expected given the 300 >>>rating point disparity. Also, Rybka was getting between 2 to 5 play deaper than >>>poor old yace, so it is pretty amazing that yace got 44% of the points >> >>Mr Rajlich has pointed out that the currently available versions of Rybka do not >>have endgame knowledge programmed into the .exe file. > >This is not correct. > >They clearly have endgame knowledge otherwise rybka could not beat yace or trace >in the endgame competition. > > > It therefore does not >>surprise me that Rybka does not play the Endgame well. > >It is not correct. >Rybka plays the endgame well and clearly better than most programs. > > > The strength of Rybka >>lies in it's handling of the middle game. > >Not only in this stage. > >See the last tournament when Rybka beated Ikarus in the endgame and saved a draw >from lost endgame against Shredder. > >The strength of Rybka is in all stages of the game(the advantage relative to the >top programs is in the middle game but being a top program in the endgame is not >easy and Rybka already achieved it). > > > Version 2, currently planned as a >>release on Feb. 1st, will have endgame knowledge integrated. > >Version 2 will probably have more endgame knowledge but the version of today >still has a lot of endgame knowledge. >Enough knowledge to be at similiar level to the top programs. > >I guess that Rybka1.2 is going to have enough knowledge to be significantly >stronger than the top programs also in the endgame. > >Uri It will be interesting to test Rybka 1.2 with the Endgame suite. Vasik was not at all satisfied with the games Rybka 1.01 played in this test. /S
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