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Subject: Re: Noomen matches comparing Rybka Beta 9 Neutral and Optimistic

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 04:06:06 01/12/06

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On January 12, 2006 at 06:33:01, Gabor Szots wrote:

>>ps. Iweta is now watching over my shoulder and gives her greetings - and says
>>that after Budapest, Rio is the best :)
>
>I have the feeling that the fact that Rybka is so strong may be partly due to
>your living in Budapest (is it where you're living now?).
>
>You may have read one or two books written by Hungarian mathematician Laszlo
>Mero on the topic of the working of the brain. There he describes that better
>chess (or go) players think using more complex structures.
>
>I have the feeling that Rybka also uses more complex stuctures than other chess
>programs. This would explain the big size of the executable.
>
>I may be completely wrong here. Am I?
>
>Regards,
>Gábor

Seriously, Rybka improved dramatically as soon as we got to Budapest. Although
this may have more to do with that being the start of the full-time work.

It's hard to say what other programs are doing. Complexity is not always a good
thing when it comes to computer chess. The big size of the executable is
actually a sort of optimization.

Vas



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