Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 02:22:35 12/06/05
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On December 05, 2005 at 14:57:45, Zappa wrote: >1. Rybka is amazing. I can honestly tell you that just by watching this engine >play I get better at chess. It's the most human-like engine I've ever seen. yes it is indeed a cool new engine. >2. I think we all need to send Stefan a big bouquet of flowers this Christmas. >If someone had told me a year ago that Shredder (#1 by 50-60 elo at the time) >would have fallen to 6th place on the rating list (behind Fritz, Fruit, Rybka, >Toga, and Zappa) I would have laughed in his face. yes. shredder was leading/dominating the scene for many years, like e.g. Richard Lang was dominating earlier with genius. suddenly the whole ORDER gets out of control and nothing is for sure anymore. great times. great to do computerchess and to follow it. >3. Ditto for Vincent, who has always prided himself on Diep's positional play. >Unfortunately for him an engine has come along that has great positional >knowledge but also gets 16 ply and doesn't have as many bugs. > >anthony different people - different approaches - different ways. sometimes you lose. sometimes you win. we will see how the "established" programmers react to this new situation. btw: we still wait for zappa.
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