rybka3 and free Rybka in a tournament

[mclane]

see

http://schachcomputerwelt.foren-city.de ... 0-c-k.html

looks not so good...

both rybka's dominate... how will the other programs react on this?

[Ovyron]

Yes, it was like this since Rybka 1.0 Beta. Other programs were able to catch it and beat it but a newer Rybka version was already available and stronger.

The strength difference has been growing, not getting shorter. Once programs start catching up, a new, yet stronger version of Rybka is released, as if Rybka came 2-3 years from the future.

Now the next enemy to beat is a freeware engine.

[mclane]

yes. i forgot to mention the tournament was played on an intel core2quad
with 2.4 Ghz and permanent brain was ON. each program 1 cpu.

time control 40/10'

[Jouni]

Yes Rybka v2.2n2 is strong! Note, that as default tablebases are disabled and
even if You activate them no hits are shown (tbs are used Ok).

Jouni

[mclane]

thank you for the advise. i did not know. so i will correct this for further testing.