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Subject: Re: Rybka misses position learning

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 15:52:06 01/12/06

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On January 12, 2006 at 04:16:34, Alex Shalamanov wrote:

Both Shredder and Hiarcs has something that I miss a lot when using Rybka. That
something is position learning. Working on a position with a chess engine is
much more rewarding when the engine learns from going into a variation. So when
you back up it remember the value of that line.

Torstein

>Fritz 9, Junior 9, Zappa (if there's ever going to be a commercial release),
>Fruit, Hiarcs 10. They may be all right for the sake of testing or playing with
>but using them as an analysis tool is not a big deal.
>If you ask me, the best ones for a CC player are Rybka (even betas are much
>better than the aforementioned commercial ones) and Shredder 9UCI. These
>understand complex positional games much better than the CB-based products.
>Rybka is only lacking some endgame knowledge, but it's only a matter of time
>when it can have it. The best of all is to use them both searching in parallel
>under one GUI like Shredder GUI.
>
>Best wishes,
>Alexander



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