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Subject: Re: A note about Rybka's "speed" and variation display

Author: Zheng Zhixian

Date: 05:49:42 12/05/05

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On December 05, 2005 at 08:31:25, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 05, 2005 at 07:19:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>It seems to me that Rybka's seemingly slow speed is caused by not counting
>>quiescent nodes as search nodes.
>
>
>I guess that playing chess is the strong point of rybka and not counting nodes.
>
>Uri

I would think someone of Gian's caliber would know this. :)

I guess his point is that people here tend to glorify any strong engine with low
nodes per second as being 'positional', or 'humanlike', or 'knowledgable'  so
this is an attempt to head it off first by explaining the somewhat low figures.

But I could be wrong.



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