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Subject: Re: I'm convinced Hardware plays limited role in Rybka's strength

Author: Ryan B.

Date: 19:25:44 02/27/06

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On February 27, 2006 at 21:55:05, Charles Wane wrote:

>I just got finished playing a four game match at game/30 min between Hiarcs 10
>and Rykba 13d, Hiarcs had an Athlon64 3200 with 128mb hash, against Rykba
>running on a Pent II 450 with 128mb hash. The score was 2-2 !!  Yesterday I
>played about 14 games between rykba running on the same 450 against Deep fritz 8
>on the Athlon64 and rykba won the majority of the games!! Iv'e never seen a
>program with such inferior hardware play so strong. I actually rated rybka on
>the 450 on chessmaster 10th but letting rybka play the various personalities it
>ended up with a rating of 3055!! And lost only one game , running all on a mere
>Pent II 450.  I guess Rybka's case the chess knowledge means much more then the
>speed of the program? I don't know cause I'm not a computer chess expert, but
>all this seems bizarre.

From what I have seen Rybka has great knowledge but not in the way of
traditional chess knowledge by having a huge evaluation function.  Like all
chess engines I expect Rybka to play better on faster hardware but I so far
think the gain of fast hardware is less than most other programs.  From what I
see Rybka ranks higher in blitz than long tc games.  This is at least the case
on the CEGT rating list.

Ryan



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