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Rybka Solves the King's Gambit Chess Opening

Posted by Unknown on from the big-blue-shall-crush-you dept.

New submitter smarq2 writes "Chessbase reports that chess programmer IM Vasik Rajlich has solved the King's Gambit chess opening with technical means. 3000 processor cores, running for over four months, exhaustively analyzed all lines that follow after 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 and came to some extraordinary conclusions." Update: 04/02 22:11 GMT by U L : Skuto points out that this is the same person who was found guilty of plagiarizing GNU Chess and Crafty.

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  1. Re:Rybka was made by plagiarizing a GPL program. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the author plagiarized...chessbase keeps selling this stolen engine.... Slashdot ought to be ashamed to give publicity to cheats and thieves.

    Oh, but didn't you know "you can't steal information"?

  2. Re:The extraordinary conclusions? Only one move! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's talking about chess, so "matematicians" is correct here.

  3. Re:Rybka was made by plagiarizing a GPL program. by kamapuaa · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you read Slashdot, you know that stealing is OK, because
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    6) Stealing software doesn't deprive others of the product

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