What's Vasik Rajlich doing today?

[vittyvirus]

Just to add,it was the Ippolit stuff that got him out of CP, as far as I know. Although I now think Rybka was a Fruit derivate, I am not afraid to acclaim Vas for 500 elo increase from Fruit to Rybka.
One evidence that Rybka is a Fruit derivative is Strelka. Vas accused it of being modified Rybka, and it turned out to be Fruit rewritte with Bitboards. Hilarious enough.

Strelka is a mix of Fruit 2.1 and Rybka 1.0

Oh well , thanks for correcting me. But if Rybka 1.0 is closed-source, how is it possible? Disassembly?

[velmarin]

Just to add,it was the Ippolit stuff that got him out of CP, as far as I know. Although I now think Rybka was a Fruit derivate, I am not afraid to acclaim Vas for 500 elo increase from Fruit to Rybka.
One evidence that Rybka is a Fruit derivative is Strelka. Vas accused it of being modified Rybka, and it turned out to be Fruit rewritte with Bitboards. Hilarious enough.

Strelka is a mix of Fruit 2.1 and Rybka 1.0

Oh well , thanks for correcting me. But if Rybka 1.0 is closed-source, how is it possible? Disassembly?

Read:
http://strelkachess.narod.ru/

[Terry McCracken]

They argue with logic and proofs, and people will choose their paths anyway. You're telling Ed that he doesn't know Computer Science, do YOU know who Ed is?

Terry knows. What he is doing is trying to shut down this thread by posting insults. Nice tactic. Has often worked in the past.

That's a lie, but lying is something that comes easy to you.

You're sabotaging the thread and lying and blaming me. What a manipulator you are Ed. Now you will likely do what you can to have me ban. That's what I call a lowlife tactic.

You should get banned. You should not go around belittling a man who obviously is quite or at least was a substantial figure in computer chess. There are reasons why people have the opinions that they do, and everyone is entitled to their opinions. Ed has a lot of good, solid evidence to back up his case. More than likely he probably does have a lot of truth to what he is saying (he actually backs up his claims...). Your claim to simply suggest that any reasonaby intentlligent person should just listen to Hyatt (I do not care about his expert status) is ridiculous. Reasonably-intelligent individuals here in this community should understand that many authors within the ICGA had motives to find ways to get rid of Vas. The guy was winning all of their tournaments; Rybka was unstoppable. That is motive enough. I believe that Jealousy played a huge part into the ICGA's obvious desire to get rid of Vas; do you really think the copying of code had anything to do with this? Seriously?

Ultimately, do you not see how pointless this entire debate between both Hyatt and Ed is? Nobody cares about the ICGA (and Rybka is also now dead). They are a dying organization with engines extremely inferior to the world's best. The nTCEC has taken over, whether you like it or not, because Martin provides a tournament with many games and many months of competition compared to the joke run by the ICGA. They, to me, and to a lot of the computer-chess community are the ones lying since their rather bold claim that they run the "World Computer Chess Championship" is honestly sadly laughable. Again, it does not really matter. The community chooses where things rightfully go from here - and the ICGA is not found in the books. 

Rybka is its own engine. Its Elo being that of approximately 3160 found on the CCRL website is evidence enough. Vas was no idiot. He knew exactly what he was doing. And he clearly is a more talented programmer than a lot of the authors from the ICGA (his engine's dominance proves this despite the accusations). 

No matter the words discussed here on this forum, Rybka will always go down in history as being one of the strongest computer chess engines relative to its time period of course. 

Vas did exactly the right thing walking away from an obviously pretty sad ICGA organization. 

I am happy to see someone with stature stand up for Vasik.

I couldn't have agreed more...

Agree more on what? There's no truth in this reply.

There's lots of truth in my reply Terry. You insult people which is pretty sad, and pretty pathetic - that is exactly why I wrote what I wrote in my previous post. Seriously, ignorance will get you nowhere. I am not here to argue with a stranger, but grow up man. Do you really believe that Vasik and his Rybka engine are not going to go down in computer chess history as one of the most influential of figures? The community decides largely where things go from here. Unfortunately for you, and others like you, a good, large majority of us enjoyed Rybka throughout the years - and we could care less about the lies and jealousy, quite frankly, of the ICGA. It does not even matter what I think, the truth is out there for you to grasp.

You might want to follow the upcoming nTCEC 2015 (the official tournament) to see the real champion engines because Deep Junior is far from being one.

Rybka, does that name not hurt you? Get used to it; so long as others accept Rybka for being its own diversifying engine, it will seamlessly continue to be one. Funny enough, all of the other jealous authors' engines such as HIARCS STILL have not caught up to Rybka's strength.

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/ - At least Graham has respect for ALL engine authors unlike yourself, or the ICGA authors who went on a giant jealous rage - indefinitely driving away a very strong computer chess engine author as Vasik.

There's your agenda, open for all to read. Pompous and Opinionated and the truth doesn't matter one iota.

Get use to the fact there are people here who are actually ethical and do treat engine authors equally until they work outside the system and play the victim as well!

With spokesman like you Vasik's program will be forever mired, bogged down in the muck.

None of this hurts me in any way whatsoever beyond almost spilling my coffee when I read your bizarre reply.