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Subject: Re: Rybka and its Book

Author: Vikrant Malvankar

Date: 02:43:21 03/01/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 05:13:43, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>On February 28, 2006 at 23:44:11, Vikrant Malvankar wrote:
>
>>My question is how come a book is released before the Final version of Rybka is
>>released?
>>How does Mr. Rajlich knows that the book will be optimized for his Final
>>version(with Enhanced Endgame knowledge) and if so why he is not releasing the
>>BETA with enhanced Endgame knowledge?
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Vikrant
>
>It's the release model we use. If Jeroen decides to change his book, we'll
>release it again.
>
>Another program that was doing this is Crafty (judging from the many version
>numbers). For commercials, though, it's new, so some people are confused.
>
>We're still trying to come up with a good release tempo. Earlier, it was too
>high. Once per three or four weeks for the engine is probably about right.
>
>Vas

Thanks Vas for clarifying that.



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