Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 14:17:23 02/08/06
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On February 08, 2006 at 08:00:32, stuart taylor wrote: >On February 07, 2006 at 15:47:22, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>On February 07, 2006 at 15:04:20, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>Since Rybka is only in its first year, and it is already so advanced, does this >>>indicate that next year it might be 200 elo even stronger than the final beta of >>>this year? >>>S.Taylor >> >>Probably not! :-) >> >>Torstein >> >>PS I think it gets harderer and harder to improve the better you get. But maybee >>if you do come up with a very different approch or a new technique or whatever. > >Indeed, Vasik is doing a very different approach to chess programming, and >selling them. >He is not stopping at something which will merely put Rybka in first place, and >saving the rest for another year. >It could be he is giving it all he's got, NOW. And that, will be the masterpiece >which will hold, and even if equalled, not surpassed. In my view almost everything can be improved given some hard work and some time. You do not believe he has solved chess yet, do you? So I believe Vasik will make Rybka a better program if he keep on his working on it. But to get strenght increase of 200 elo, is far more than you can expect in a year. Torstein >This is obviously a much more honest and interesting way. >In fact, In a way I'm happy that I still waited till now, and didn't give up >chess and all these things yet (which would have been better for me in general, >but the up side is that I got what I was waiting for, and it is not taking till >2008 or longer, which might have been the case without Vasik). > >Still, I was wondering if this was indeed the case. > >In fact, if Vasik would say he was staying around to make even better updates >all at the same one-time price, I would be happy to pay $100
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