Re:Debunking a Computer Chess Scandal
by wisty on Saturday January 07, 2012 @01:03PM
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The thing I'd like to see - a three way comparison of the alleged "cheating". Rybka and Fruit have some similar parts, but how about Fruit and any other similar program? It might just be that any chess program will have parts that look similar.
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A document like that was included in the original investigation, with 9 different chess engines. It didn't compare source code though, but on which features of the board each engine would consider when evaluating a position. For example one engine might give an extra boost to a position where your knight is in a central location and capable of affecting a larger part of the board, another might give a boost to situations with interlocking pawn defenses, etc.
According to the evidence, two engines with different ancestry would have a feature overlap of about 30-35%, up to 45% in the most extreme cases. With the exception of Fruit and Rybka, with 75% overlap.