Before we make a decision, let's look at another case with similar evaluation features, i.e. R3H and Komodo. Both have evaluation functions designed by Larry Kaufman. Komodo? Now Komodo is getting sucked into the vortex of BB+ Chess Engine Metaphysics. There had been a number of comments that I ...

I think that "the cat is out of the bag" now. Deleting posts probably seems worse than letting them stand...
I haven't gone over there, but I would hope that the owner of the Rybka site would respond to a post on his own site indicating clear evidence of code copying. Surely he has responded at ...

I have not seen anyone claim that it is not original to "Roberto Pescatore" (maybe "plus Decembrists"), except what I mentioned here regarding the computation of a suffix tree in the compression phase.
Where you rate creation of the robbobase code on the "difficulty" scale? Hats off to the ...

Don't see anywhere a discussion about the origin of the robbobase code. Is it presumably "original"?

I think under normal circumstances it would be wrong to pass on your program. However if I was convinced there was compelling evidence that your software may not be original I would have a tough choice to make.

And. There is a world of difference between giving the program to an organization for ...

Say am trying to put on some muscles and a friend hands me a bottle of what he says was creatine, but rather than gaining muscles am becoming more mentally unstable. So being suspicious that it might be really cocaine, I send the bottle to my good friends Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan (they being ...

Komodo? Now Komodo is getting sucked into the vortex of BB+ Chess Engine Metaphysics. If you know not the objects in your universe, then your universe is "hoisted by its own petard".

Contingency planning: what happens if ICGA does NOTHING?


Usually you lead with your best stuff, so lets take a ...

For a bug-fix maintenance update, no money comes in. Therefore, unless the author/company cares about customer service, there's no reason to hurry. Besides, the time spent taking care of the customers can be better spent decompiling programs, obfuscating code, meeting with attorneys over pending ...

Anybody got a link to nice graphic that illustrates cut, all, pv, cutoffs, alpha,beta, fail high, etc.? Not equations, but boxes and lines and trees!

I like picture books!

Elsewhere I read that Houdini improves upon ippo* in part by implementing lazy eval on pv nodes rather than just on cut and all. It doesn't seem that that would be very difficult to implement in Ivanhoe's pv_node.c.

Do other engines typically do lazy on pv nodes? Why would that or how could that ...