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(More customer reviews)Rybka has been by far the strongest and the most efficient computer chess engine since it came out a few years ago. The new version 3 reaches such high ILO ratings that practically leaves everything and everyone else in the dust.
I was at first intimidated by Rybka's strength. After all, does a 1000-rated player really need a 3000+ rated program that can easily beat Kasparov? After trying a few other programs including ChessMaster, however, I decided that their erratic position analysis was simply too unreliable and finally took the plunge.
The new Rybka 3 came out in August with a new front-end application, Aquarium, designed specifically for it. Unfortunately, a quick web search reveals wide-spread user discontent about the buggy nature of this new software. Therefore, I chose to go with the tried-and-true Chessbase version.
The installation went smoothly without a hitch. The Chessbase front-end runs fairly stable but comes without some of the fancy features of ChessMaster. What I really wants is to do position analysis quickly and reliably, however, and here, Rybka truly shines. It reaches a stable, consistent and trustworthy evaluation at a depth of 14 to 15. It is like having god on your side to ask for advise at every turn.
I run Deep (i.e. the multi-processor version) Rybka with Windows Vista 64 on an Intel Q9450 quad-core machine with 8GB of RAM. It generally takes around a minute to evaluate 10-30 million positions and reach the useful depth of 14. The only time the recommendations look a little suspect is during the opening, but this is largely due to the fact that I did not purchase the Rybka book, which is sold separately.
In all, there is no guarantee that Rybka will improve the user's chess skill, but no computer program can really make that claim anyway. What it is guaranteed to do is to give the users reliable position evaluation in real time. To me, therefore, it takes away most of the confusion and frustration in studying chess. I am truly happy with the purchase.
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