Author: Mark Boylan
Date: 17:49:11 03/07/06
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On March 07, 2006 at 20:42:18, Marc D wrote: >On March 07, 2006 at 20:37:55, Mark Boylan wrote: > >>On March 07, 2006 at 20:18:18, Marc D wrote: >> >>>I still think Rybka has preconfigured chess data knowledge in it's code to >>>acomplish these things. >>> >>>Marc >> >>I don't understand. >> >>All of the better programs that I've read have preconfigured chess knowledge of >>some sort for evaluating positions. >> >>Are you saying that Rybka has a precalculated table containing the evaluations >>of some common positions? Like a middlegame book? Would that even help beyond >>the opening. Even if it did, would it be bad? >> >>Whatever that program does, it's damn clever. > >Yes something similar like this. > >But i agree with you that what the program does is quite clever and makes it so >far unbeaten. > >Marc I certainly don't know what I'm talking about, but it seems to me that the chance of getting a hit on a fixed set of positions beyond the opening is so slim as to make it not worth the effort. Do any other programs do that?
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