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Subject: Re: Rybka mutilates everyone ... not only HIARCS

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 08:10:19 01/02/06

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On December 31, 2005 at 09:00:42, Torstein Hall wrote:

>That may be so, but I can not understand how you can now it! Have you seen the
>source code of either program?

of course not.

>In my view Rybka has some knowledge missing from all other engines, Hiarcs 10
>included. I feel it has something to do with evaluation of pawn structure.

yes.
here i agree. seems rybka is a little like morphy.
or vas studied much kmoch :-)


> It
>seems to me like Rybka  can see strong free pawns comming way ahead of other
>programs.
>
>Torstein


agree here too.
i have seen this also in many games.

>>
>>while all other engines are much different from rybka, hiarcs is close.
>>
>>that seems to make it easier for rybka to kill hiarcs. BUT: only in default
>>mode.
>>if you change hiarcs10 playing style (e.g. default
>>+agg+hyp+threaddepth5+combinations-futility) it seems that things are different.



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