Vasik Rajlich

Vasik Rajlich, 2006
Surname	Vasik G. Rajlich
Association	United States
Born	1971 Cleveland
title	International champion (2003)
Current  Elo rating	2303 (October 2019)
Best Elo rating	2384 (January 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Vasik G. Rajlich (* 1971 in Cleveland , Ohio) is an international master in chess and the developer of Rybka , one of the strongest chess programs in the world.

Life

5th Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship 2009 in Mainz. The 4 programs Deep Sjeng, Shredder, Rybka and Ikarus and their programmers.

Rajlich has been a dual citizen of the Czech Republic (until 1992 of Czechoslovakia ) and the United States of America from birth . He was born in the United States to Czech parents, but grew up in Prague . He later spent several years in the United States as a student at MIT . Since the beginning of 2003 he has been involved in chess programming, since mid-2005 he has worked exclusively on his Rybka program.

Iweta and Vasik Rajlich (2006)

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Lewon Aronjan pats during a game of Rybka - Shredder and discusses with the two programmers Vasik Raijlich and Stefan Meyer-Kahlen on the occasion of the Chess960 Computer World Championship 2009 in Mainz.

In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he won the Chess960 Computer World Championship with Rybka at the Chess Classic in Mainz .

His wife Iweta (née Radziewicz), like Vasik, holds the title of International Master. It helps with the development of Rybka by testing new versions. After Rybka 3 appeared in August 2008, the Rajlichs moved from the USA to Poland.

After allegations of plagiarism, Rybka has not been further developed since 2011. In 2015, Rajlich reappeared as a programmer for Fritz 15 .

Vasik Rajlich is listed as inactive at FIDE, as he has not played an Elo rated game since the 2007/08 season of the British Four Nations Chess League .

Web links

Commons : Vasik Rajlich  - Collection of Images

• Interview with Vasik at LatestChess.com ( Memento from May 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Replayable chess games by Vasik Rajlich on chessgames.com (English)
• UCI engines.de: Interview with Vasik Rajlich (December 2005) ( Memento from June 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• CHESS MAGAZINE 64 (May 2007) (PDF file; 197 kB)
• Chess magazine CHESS in English (May 2007) (PDF file; 129 kB)
• Nelson Hernandez: Interview with Vasik Rajlich , December 5, 2009 (doc, English; 89 kB)
• Rybka loses world title (June 2011, Spiegel Online)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Phillip E. Ross: Vasik Rajlich: Game Boy . IEEE Spectrum . February 2007. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved on March 7, 2011.
2. ^ Engineer Shocks Chess World . Retrieved July 13, 2015.
3. ^ N. Hernandez: Interview with Vasik Rajlich, December 5, 2009