Should Vas be in the chess programmers hall of fame?
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Should Vas be in the chess programmers hall of fame?
I feel rybka start a new era in computer chess If there was a hall of fame he should be in it
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Re: Should Vas be in the chess programmers hall of fame?
The evidence suggests that the innovation that strongly boosted Rybka's elo was tuning of engine parameters. If this is correct, then he should certainly get credit for being the first to do that.
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Re: Should Vas be in the chess programmers hall of fame?
I thought it was a material imbalance table too he was the 1st to do that as well
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Re: Should Vas be in the chess programmers hall of fame?
He also invented very aggressive LMR (far beyond the 1 or 2 plies that were the norm before).
When this became public knowledge through Ippolit, other engines (including SF) became hundreds of Elo stronger.
When this became public knowledge through Ippolit, other engines (including SF) became hundreds of Elo stronger.
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Re: Should Vas be in the chess programmers hall of fame?
Aggressive pruning overall (also null-move reductions), higher extensions, quite a lot of things that impact strong tree shaping. Ofc one needed very well tuned eval for this, otherwise it wouldn't work.
Glaurung had EBF of 5+ and very light pruning. And then after Ippolit SF became the most aggressively pruning engine.
Basically in terms of impact on search development in various engines by far the biggest one came from Ippolit (much more than Fruit or Crafty or any other open source for the matter).
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Re: Should Vas be in the chess programmers hall of fame?
Rybka 1.0 and Rybka 2.32 64bit were milestones in computerchess.
In this time there were no alternatives to Rybka.
I know what i say because i am a tournamentplayer.
So my vote for the place in the hall of fame goes to Vas.
In this time there were no alternatives to Rybka.
I know what i say because i am a tournamentplayer.
So my vote for the place in the hall of fame goes to Vas.
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