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Subject: Re: New Rybka book in test: STUNNING

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:54:20 02/28/06

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On February 28, 2006 at 11:09:32, Majd Al-Ansari wrote:

>Letting Rybka use an optimized book is almost not fair for other programs.

Rybka cannot use that book not under chessbase so I consider it as not part of
rybka'a package.

I think that the ssdf should not use it in their testing of rybka when they test
rybka because they should test commercial products and the combination between
.ctg book and rybka is combination of 2 commercial products.

I am lucky to have Fritz8 and Junior9 as chessbase engines but I simply do not
care about book today and I am not going to use it.

<snipped>
>   Rybka was already beating any engine with its own native book very
>handily, so now I guess things will really get ugly.  They might get even uglier
>once the last few weaknesses of Rybka are covered (endgame knowledge).

You are wrong if you think that lack of some endgame knowledge is the only
weakness of Rybka.

based on my experience in correspondence games it has more weaknesses.

Uri



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