alfons wrote:Ok then. The technical merits of the Decembrists and Comrades, which you don't seem able to recognize as expected, are:
-providing a strong chess engine
-which gets frequently updated due to fixed bugs and improvements for endusers
-OWN endgame-bases-scheme with strong compression
-plus a portable library for the very same
-a GUI written in Java for analysis
-a GUI written in Java for exploring endgames/bases
-all of that with a liberal licence
-open development
-in a wiki-like progressive environment
-that package is free (as in speech+beer)
-you did choose a dumb green bottle as adequate representing you here
compare it with the people, forums, code, presentation etc. associated with Rybka: They simply fail the aesthetic-test because they're ugly (to start with). All of them. Another kind of comparison wouldn't make any sense...as we're ahead mate, namely in every department.
Now you may lay back and ponder how wonderful the Rybka5clusterexe would perform on 400 cores and how would it do that just for YOU. You can dream on of course: How socially rewarding it would be, if you had explored new opening-tricks etc...for spending thousands of eurodollar; dreaming is all which is left to you pal, as indifferent reality can be observed and that is:
-a bugridden engine proven to play neatly chess
-a forum inhabited by trolls, which invite Prof. Hyatt to discuss (because it's so liberal and judicious and crowded with experts only as Jrœhn and Sπeit) and then swear him to leave the place: "It's time to give back the Rybka forum to its users. Go home." (because of Bobs excessive peculiarity in replying to literally EVERY dumb scribble secluded there)
-other unpleasent and troublesome conditions (suspicous)
Boy, have you found a home...bah.
as this above post was aimed at "uly" (with missing "g") i congratulate alfons on making several relevant incisive observation's and in plain English
However lets not be "fanboys" but unlike those lets be honest
1) -providing a strong chess engine
-which gets frequently updated due to fixed bugs and improvements for endusers
PAST TENSE NO update for over 9 months
2,3.)
-a GUI written in Java for analysis
-a GUI written in Java for exploring endgames/bases
EXCELLENT for analyzing LOSE's if one uses this now weak un updated engine ,but to call them GUI.s is rather OVER exaggerating them somewhat as they are NOT fully functioning GUI's. no much good for anything but anyalizing loses really,, unless one thinks ..".Well they occupied the Decemberists time for over 12 months.preventing any work on Ippolit engines "
Then yes VERY useful ,
to Houdart and co
4)-in a wiki-like progressive environment
an environment that should carry a warning to all visiting it
"Unsuitable for women and youngsters to visit "
Its become a TOILET like environment Capitalist Graffiti smeared all over it . left to spawn maggots and attract fly pitchers to cover it with advertising of Capatalist Commercial products
A sad abandoned place that few care to TRY to protect that NONE of its Admin attempt to clean up and return it to the status it merits
rather like Robbolito was abandoned and left for the intelligent vultures to pick away inside it really
vultures that feasted and grew fat while Decemberists twiddled with useless GUIs
Shame they didnt take good advice and make something useful from that poor abandoned engine as Houdart did
As for your points re Rybka fanboys and there forum
Yes True
its still the #1 forum though
for cheats and liars anyway