Isaksen wrote:Can't come up of any other programmer than Vas himself, that could do that. In my opinion it would be money well earned.
Who else than a programmer who created Rybka, might also create one even stronger than her.
That logic can't stand.
Many years before it was not Rybka, the strongest engine.
For example it was Shredder 9 where it was leading everything. Wins, wins, wins! Complete domination.
So that time with the same logic, only SMK could create something even stronger than S9. Yet we know of course that other programmers later created stronger engines than S9.
Yes Vasik can create a stronger Rybka than the current one, but other programmers can create a stronger one too.....
Jim Walker wrote:Hello George,
I like your Avatar. Can you tell me how to do that or at least refer me to some instructions somewhere?
Thanks,
Jim
I took a picture of a 3D board from Chessmaster 9000 or Deep Fritz 8 GUI, found a suitable Bush and pineapple picture and then with paint-shop-pro(photoshop does the job too) it was easy to combine all these to 2 pictures.
And with GIF Animator it is a 10 second job to create an animated picture with these 2 pictures.....
Knowing that Strelka is a bitboard engine, it would be able to catch up with Rybka 1.0 64 bit with just few bugfixes and the release of a 64bit version.
AdminX wrote:If Vas was to retire from Rybka development today, and only opening book and tablebase improvement continued for Rybka, then how long would it take for a program to replace Rybka from the top of the rating list?
Bah, like this would ever happen... I don't waste my time answering non-sensical questions !
