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a Czech-American (born 1971 in Cleveland, Ohio) computer scientist and MIT graduate, where his thesis advisor was McAllester in 1993. Vasik is [|International Master] in chess and primary author of Fritz 15, and before, Rybka , the former world strongest chess program, which arose that strong end of 2005. Vasik is married with Iweta Rajlich, a Polish chess [|International Master] and [|Woman Grandmaster] and main Rybka tester.
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Vasik Rajlich's interpretation of nodes and depth and the Strelka controversy   raised suspicions about the initial origin of Rybka 1.0 , but Vasik Rajlich categorically denied Rybka 1.0 was based on Fruit  , as already mentioned by Chrilly Donninger in 2005 after early rumors and questions occurred. On January 19, 2011 ICGA president David Levy broached on cloning issues in a //ChessVibes// column, covering the controversies, where Vasik again confirmed Rybka source is original after he was invited to comment on Zach Wegner’s analysis a few days before Levy wrote his article. In June 2011, the ICGA has disqualified and banned Rybka and its programmer Vasik Rajlich from previous and future World Computer Chess Championships.

The information that Vasik Rajlich is author of the new Fritz 15 engine was recognized as early as July 2015, confirmed in November 2015 by ChessBase. || toc =Interview= Quotes from an //uciengines.de// Interview with Vasik Rajlich, December 20, 2005, //a new age in Computerchess?// Two questions by Alexander Schmidt:
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=See also=
 * Claims that Strelka is Rybka
 * ICGA Investigations
 * Rybka Controversy

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Re: Shredder 8 secret: search depth?] by Vasik Rajlich, CCC, March 23, 2004 » Depth, Shredder, Junior, Fritz
 * [|Rybka 1.0 beta release - need testers] by Vasik Rajlich, CCC, November 30, 2005
 * [|Rybka 1.0 Announcement] by Vasik Rajlich, CCC, December 05, 2005
 * [|Rybka 3 Release Notes] by Vasik Rajlich, Rybka Forum, August 4, 2008
 * [|Vasik's Contribution] by Martin Wyngaarden, CCC, December 04, 2010
 * [|Apology to Vas] by Rebel, Rybka Forum, August 17, 2011
 * [|A Big Thanks and a Small Update] by Vasik Rajlich, Rybka Forum, January 08, 2012

=External Links= > [|Part 2], [|Part 3], [|Part 4], [|Part 5], [|Part 6], [|Part 7] > media type="youtube" key="k4aRw1ho6H8" > media type="youtube" key="cQshTNJ4pSM"
 * [|Vasik Rajlich from Wikipedia]
 * [|Vasik Rajlich's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|The chess games of Vasik G Rajlich] from [|chessgames.com]
 * [|Rajlich Family]
 * [|Interview with Vasik Rajlich] by Christopher Conkie, Michael Diosi, Frank Quisinsky & Alexander Schmidt, December 20, 2005, hosted by Ed Schröder
 * [|Vasik Rajlich: Game Boy] by [|Philip E. Ross], IEEE Spectrum, February 01, 2007
 * [|An Open Letter and $100,000 challenge to FIDE President Kirsan N. Ilyumzhinov] by Vasik Rajlich, May 31, 2007
 * [|Interview with IM Vasik Rajlich, author of Rybka chess program] Written by content team 24 July 2007 from [|LatestChess.com]
 * [|Interview with Vasik Rajlich] by Michael Diosi, [|Free chess graphical user interface (GUI) Arena for chess engines], October 2008
 * [|Interview mit dem Rybka-Programmierer Vasik Rajlich], [|Glarean Magazin], October 18, 2009
 * A Conversation with Vasik Rajlich - Part 1, By Nelson Hernandez, December 2009, [|YouTube] Video
 * "Another Conversation with Vasik Rajlich" By Nelson Hernandez (on Rybka chess), July 04, 2011, [|YouTube] Video
 * [|Rajlich: Busting the King's Gambit, this time for sure] Interview with Vasik Rajlich by Frederic Friedel, ChessBase News, April 02, 2012
 * [|Fritz 15 engine - questions and answers] by Albert Silver, ChessBase News, January 04, 2016 » Fritz

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