First of all, Robert, thank you for this fantastic engine.

A question to anyone: Is this the best engine to use with IDeA?

The tournament is finished.

The PGN can be downloaded from the official site.

1 Rybka 4 64-bit 4CPU 10.5 47.25
2 Junior 11.2 64-bit 4CPU 4.5 26.25
Zappa Mexico II 64-bit 4CP 4.5 23.25
Spark 0.5 64-bit 4CPU 4.5 20.25

The site will be relaunched in a few hours, and TCEC Match 4 will start as ...

When someone says "There is zero fruit code in Rybka 1" I take the common definition of "zero". 0.000, not "a little" or "not very much".

Where did he say that?

There have been _several_ such quotes on the Rybka forum. They have occasionally been copied over to CCC.
I am not trying to be ...

hyatt wrote: When someone says "There is zero fruit code in Rybka 1" I take the common definition of "zero". 0.000, not "a little" or "not very much".

Where did he say that?

Allow me some remarks. I deliberately take the Vas=innocent position for the sake of the discussion.

Here is a list that I came up with (again I rely partially on ZW) of "suspicious" things in Rybka:
* Re-use of exact same File/Rank/Line arrays in PST values (as opposed to an "idea" where statics ...

Game 26: Slow manoeuvering, then a surprising blow (24...Nf3+!!), and back to some more manoeuvering. Great game.

Thanks for your support everyone!

Houdini won game 20 to make the score 11.5 - 8.5 in favor of Rybka.

Game 21 is underway, now we have a interesting King's Gambit (accepted), with Rybka as white. Game 22 will have the same opening, but with Houdini as white.

Anyone watched Carlsen play the King ...

There is a free Rybka for all, but no, I was not counting that. Thanks for reminding me, though.
Really??? Rybka 3 and 4 for free? Where? I hope you are not suggesting piracy...
No, version 3 or 4 is not free. The free versions are from the Rybka 2 series, but they are pretty strong too. But my ...

Honestly, as a Rybka customer I get the opposite impression. The customer support from Vas is great IMO.
Sure it is, if you count free Rybka sample to the most faithful believers as the customer support ;).
There is a free Rybka for all, but no, I was not counting that. Thanks for reminding me ...

In the end Vas doesn't care if your happy, he wants your money.

Then why is he issuing a Rybka 4.1 free update for his customers?

Because without it, he will not be receiving our money in the future. :)

I think that Vas gets a pretty bad rap most of the time, but he's made it pretty clear that ...