maybe you should release a 1.01b version with just the bug fixes, so we can do a proper comparison?

1.01 was crashing in my program.

i enjoy using houdini. i hope it's not too much trouble.

Ovyron wrote:There was evidence that Ippolit did, as in, a long patch of moves where the evaluation score followed Shredder's score exactly

can u link to the thread about this?

64x wrote:They probably have been.

i guess you're right. it makes more sense that robbolito is a combination of codes that was able to beat rybka 3, instead of the notion that rybka 4 beta was stolen.

i kept hearing about rybka clones and nothing about the other commercial engines, so i was ignorant.

how hard is it to reverse engineer?

why haven't fritz, hiarcs, and shredder been reverse engineered like rybka? strong parts of the different codes can be mixed together to produce a more complete engine.