Author: Günther Simon
Date: 12:09:25 12/12/05
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On December 12, 2005 at 14:17:21, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 12, 2005 at 05:43:57, Chan Rasjid wrote: <part 1> >>I left CCC for a few months(6) and came back finding Vasik finally released his >>first beta after many many years of chess programming. >> >>Great fun from the appereance of Rybka! Time to clone-guess and to test one's >>Sherlock-Home skill in unravelling the mystery "Why is Rybka so strong" >> >>I can never understand Daniel's post and the details even if I wanted to - meant >>for the top 1% of chess programmers. <part 2> >> My raw take is that it is a clone. >>Definitely a clone - how else can a program reach 2800 as a first release. From >>all his CCC posts through the years, the truely discernimg experts (not >>necessarily you) among us know he could not come out with anything original or >>creative and he often mistake fail soft with hard,etc...etc.. ask him a basic >>question about recursive null-move and he would have himself exposed as a fraud >>and then you don't need to search too much of a proof. Just search the archives >>for all his silly postings! Do you then need any proof. >> >>Still getting solid evidence is great fun. >>Hope someone can prove how sharp my instinct is. >> >>No special regards for anyone or ill-will. > >I am very sure it is not a clone. > >Lots of amazingly strong engines come out of the blue. > >For example: >Ruffian >Fruit >Zappa >Rybka > >In the case of Fruit, everyone could look for themselves and see: >Nothing but lots of old good ideas and new fresh ideas and no cut and paste from >somebody else at all. > >Fabien's code is also an example not only of how to write a chess program but >how to program period. > >Anyway, I think it is not a good thing to make statements that sound like >accusations with no evidence whatsoever. > >IMO-YMMV. Hi Dann, I am not 100% sure, but I read the 2nd part of the post as pure irony, especially as it is in contradiction with part 1, at least IMHO. Regards, Guenther
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