The people who spend the time and effort creating chess engines also matter to us.

Thank you, Adam. I've got the message. It's true that I was unfair to engine creators. But, now it raises another issue: an author who firms his/her engine with a nickname is still an author. Why discriminate him ...

If in order to be rated by CCRL/IPON/CEGT it´s not an issue for an engine to be "controversial" (a category in CCRL) about its origin, why is an issue to have not a name attached to it? (like the ippo* family) Among computer chess enthusiasts who cares about the author? We are most concerned about ...

version 3.10 is working (almost) perfect on my Windows 7 x64

I wrote "almost" because there is a minor glitch about board size. Everytime I run the program I must open Preferences dialog box in order to restore the board size to default, otherwise it is too large, doesn't fit the screen (1920x1080 ...