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Subject: Re: Rybka and its Book

Author: William Penn

Date: 04:18:26 03/01/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 01:30:32, Mark Boylan wrote:

>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.

Speculative. It's probably just a new tempo for engine releases, every 3-4
weeks. The last was on February 11. February 11 + 3-4 weeks = March 4-11. So
probably sometime before spring. In the meantime, enjoy the birdies and flowers
and budding greenery outdoors. :)
WP



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