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Subject: Re: Rybka and its Book

Author: Mark Boylan

Date: 22:30:32 02/28/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 01:22:26, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:

>On March 01, 2006 at 01:14:53, Mark Boylan wrote:
>
>>It's entirely possible that he's testing a release candidate and is sure about
>>the book but still tweaking the program.
>
>But according to Rybka Purchase he should release every BETA that involves major
>changes whether productive or unproductive. Then why he is not rleasing the
>version that he is testing.

He may not be testing it for playing strength anymore. But as a programmer, he
won't want to realease it if it has bugs or half implemented features. There may
be something rather benign that he wants to fix, like say the UCI interface. Or,
he might be adding an unexpected feature, like a special analysis mode. Who
knows? It could very well be something completely unrelated to evaluation, or
endgame knowledge or even playing chess. But as long as he's got it open in a
debugger, he's not going to let us have it.



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