Concerning the openings book chosen for the tournament, I do not share the idea of using any opening
books for such a tournament. Engine authors should be free to choose which openings their creations
use or not, just like any human player does in over the board games. In real life a player
can ...

You should take into account that an engine could be smart enough to lead a game into a
theoretically won final position only to get a draw due to the 50 moves rule.

The 50 moves rule is an outdated rule introduced for games played by people. I see no reason
to use it for engines competition.

Or ...

Well, my point is that as soon as the analysis changes from a 6 pieces position to a five pieces position the engine should check and see the result without more calculation needed to announce mate, which it doesn't. Of course more calculation may be needed to give a shorter or shortest mate but the ...

Houdini 3 pro x64 finds it instantly, and after a couple of minutes gives around +0.8 for white.

Lately I have been playing around with Houdini testing it in old historical games and it is really amazing when you realize the strength of this engine.

Hi all,

I need some help, I hope someone can shed some light on this. I have Arena 3.0, with Houdini 3 Pro x64 and 3, 4 and 5 chessmen tablebases installed and working fine. The engine is configured to use the tablebases and so it does, when I give it a 5 chessmen position and click on ¨analyze ...

I do not think the proposed match between Carlsen or any other top master against a top computer is interesting. At this
point it is commonly accepted that computers are stronger than humans.

To me the interesting match is Carlsen or any top master plus the top computer against the same top ...