A Gross Miscarriage of Justice in Computer Chess (part two)
A Gross Miscarriage of Justice in Computer Chess (part two)
03.01.2012 – In this part Dr Søren Riis of Queen Mary University in London shows how most programs (legally) profited from Fruit, and subsequently much more so from the (illegally) reverse engineered Rybka. Yet it is Vasik Rajlich who was investigated, found guilty of plagiarism, banned for life, stripped of his titles, and vilified in the international press for a five-year-old alleged tournament rule violation. Ironic.
A Gross Miscarriage of Justice in Computer Chess By Dr. Søren Riis A paradigm shift in computer chess
I have mentioned the evolutionary change in computer chess. What I refer to is the fact that the last seven or eight years saw some striking changes in computer chess that were not merely more of the same. Three extraordinary things happened at the start of that time-span that changed the playing field.
Information mass-dissemination reached a new level. Computer chess websites where like-minded people could gather and through which useful information could be acquired for free proliferated: computer chess servers, rating lists, discussion fora, testing sites, providers of utilities, blogs, etc. Even something as basic as upload sites have made data transmission much easier than it formerly was.Hardware steadily improved to the point that around 2004-2005 a capabilities threshold was crossed, and it became possible to test and improve chess programs in ways that were not really feasible on old Pentium IIs and IIIs.
Most striking, breakthrough program Fruit, authored by Fabien Letouzey, was initially released in 2004 and steadily improved as an open source engine through June 2005.Taken together, these changes amount to nothing less than what Thomas Kuhn calls a paradigm shift . To illustrate my point we only need to study the patterns in program Elo strength over the past two decades. The following two charts are derived from historical SSDF and CCRL data.
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To illustrate my point we only need to study the patterns in program Elo strength over the past two decades. The following two charts are derived from historical SSDF and CCRL data. The first chart below shows that chess programs in the past were “slow
On December 4, 2005 a free, downloadable chess program named Rybka 1.0 Beta was initially released and took a sizable lead on all then-existing chess program strength ranking lists, surpassing all commercial programs. Rybka then proceeded to rapidly
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