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Subject: Re: New Rybka book in test: STUNNING

Author: Salvador H Cresce

Date: 10:14:31 02/28/06

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On February 28, 2006 at 12:54:20, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

What are the weaknesses you found on correspondence games? Where do you play
correspondence games? I play on ICCF.

Salvador



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