Vasik Rajlich
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 Rajlich in 2006 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 March 1971 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Chess career | |
| Title | International Master (2003) |
| FIDE rating | 2303 (January 2008) |
| Peak rating | 2384 (January 2002) |
| Citizenship |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Rybka |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
Vasik Rajlich (born 19 March 1971) is an International Master in chess and the author of Rybka,[1] previously one of the strongest chess playing programs in the world.[2]
Rajlich was a dual Czechoslovak-American citizen by birth; he was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Czech parents, at that time graduate students, but grew up in Prague. His father was Czech computer scientist Václav Rajlich.[3] He later spent years in the United States as a student, graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[4]
He married Iweta Radziewicz on 19 August 2006. Iweta, who is also an International Master in chess,[1] helps him with the development of Rybka as its tester.[5] In April 2012, the couple was living in Budapest, Hungary, and had one child, a son.[5][6]
In April 2012, Rajlich participated in an April Fools' Day prank on ChessBase[7]—claiming by using Rybka he had proven to a "99.99999999% certainty" that the accepted King's Gambit is a draw for White, but only after 3. Be2.[6] Rajlich later admitted on ChessBase, that, "we're still probably a good 25 or so orders of magnitude away from being able to solve something like the King's Gambit. If processing power doubles every 18 months for the next century, we'll have the resources to do this around the year 2120, plus or minus a few decades".[8]
Rajlich's handle on the Internet Chess Club is "vrajlich".[9]
