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Subject: Re: New Rybka book in test: STUNNING

Author: Paulo Cesar Soares

Date: 11:39:53 02/28/06

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On February 28, 2006 at 13:14:31, Salvador H Cresce wrote:

>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

I remember your name, Salvador. I also played postal chess
up to 1993, when I abandoned Brazilian championship semifinal.
My congratulations, I entered in the CXEB site and I saw that you are an ICCF
GM!

Paulo Cesar F. F. Soares



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