Rybka 4 In-Depth Report - Part One

Introduction

by Steve Lopez

Rybka 4 Chess Software
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The chess engine everybody's been talking about - Rybka - is now part of the Fritz "family" of playing programs. The ChessBase-distributed version of Rybka 4 comes in the familiar "wrapper" of the Fritz family (the ChessProgram12 GUI), so it shares the features of the Fritz 12 interface, including playing and analysis modes. But Rybka possesses several twists all its own, and we'll be exploring these in this special series.

. The first distinction is between the two Rybka packages which ChessBase offers. Rybka 4 is the standard GUI and engine package, while Deep Rybka 4 is designed for multiprocessor machines.

Both packages each contain a further set of engines - 32-bit and 64-bit engines. The 64-bit engines run only under Windows versions which support 64-bit processing, while the 32-bit engines run under either 32-bit Windows or 64-bit Windows. You don't need to make any kind of purchasing or installation choice here - whichever version of Rybka 4 you purchase and install, the proper engines will be installed automatically.

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