Thanks Robert for another Houdini update.

Cheers!

Great! Thanks to all the Stockfish team.

Stockfish is a piranha, can 1.8 finish off the little fish?

I usually just use the computer for help with openings or endgames, in the endings, I set up positions and try play them out against the computer (without tablebases) then review afterwords and find my errors.

I like to analyse the games of the classic players (Capa, Lasker Alekhine) but this is ...

Thanks, now it would be great to see more engines included, like Ivanhoe and Fire.

Very interesting results.

surprised no one has mentioned houdini is now being 'officially' tested by ingo bauer -- http://www.inwoba.de/index.html

currently in the #2 spot trailing rybka by 11 points, which is roughly what i'd expect. more games to go.

Thanks for pointing this site out. Finally one testing and IPPO ...

Robert Houdart has released Houdini 1.02

http://www.cruxis.com/chess/houdini.htm

Thanks Robert

The only paradox is that the authors must believe it is illegal. Otherwise they wouldn't remain anonymous.

There are myriad reasons other than illegality which lead one to be pseudonymous or anonymous on the internet. One simply cannot assume that the one has anything to do with the other. It ...

I'm not a programmer so I don't have the technical background to understand BB's report in detail, but it was still very informative.

In my opinion accusations ( from Vas etc.) without proof is empty words.

Vas has just mentioned a planed R4 update on Rybka forum, see http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforu ... ?tid=17662

Well he mentions bugfixes, so thats good, unless it fizzles out like R3+

What will they do when Rybka is overtaken on the rating lists, censor them too