Vasik Rajlich
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Surname | Vasik G. Rajlich |
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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
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.
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
- 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
- ↑ Phillip E. Ross: Vasik Rajlich: Game Boy . IEEE Spectrum . February 2007. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012. Retrieved on March 7, 2011.
- ^ Engineer Shocks Chess World . Retrieved July 13, 2015.
- ^ N. Hernandez: Interview with Vasik Rajlich, December 5, 2009
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SURNAME | Rajlich, Vasik |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rajlich, Vasik G. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-American chess player and computer programmer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland |